Important Key Terms Organizational Behavior

Evaluative statements or judgements concerning objects, people, or events

Any incompatibility between two or more attitudes or between behavior and attitudes

A positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics

The degree to which a person identifies with a job, actively participates in it, and considers performance important to self-worth

Employees’ belief in the degree to which they affect their work environment, their competence, the meaningfulness of their job, and their autonomy in their work

The degree to which an employee identifies with a particular organization and its goals and wishes to maintain membership in the organization

The degree to which people in a country accept that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally

An employee’s involvement with, satisfaction with, and enthusiasm for the work he or she does