Exam 10: Job Attitudes: Antecedents and Consequences

Albert likes his job and would like to be at work. However, his son has chicken pox and cannot go to daycare, therefore, Albert must stay home with him. In this case, Albert misses work because:

Recent meta-analysis suggests that there is a moderately strong relationship (r = .30 to .60) between satisfaction and performance. Which statement about this finding is most accurate?

Which of these is NOT considered an antecedent of job satisfaction?

The degree of importance that work, in general, holds in an employee's life is known as:

Ann, who has been with her company for 15 years, firmly believes in its goals and values, and she is always willing to go the extra mile to help it succeed. Ann's feelings toward her organization are best characterized as:

There are three general consequences of job commitment: performance, withdrawal behaviors, and:

Identify and define the two types of emotion regulation. Provide an example of each type.

Attachment to an organization because of what an employee has invested in it is known as:

The measure that assesses only the affective component of job satisfaction is the:

Recent research by Chen and colleagues (2011) suggests that intent to turnover increases the most when someone:

Job satisfaction consists of two components: an affective component and a(n) _____ component.

One of the strongest predictors of affective and normative commitment is:

Oswald finds that work holds an important place in his life; when he was laid off, he felt that an important part of his life was missing. We might characterize Oswald as having a high level of:

Due to FX Company's poor financial performance, John received a decrease in both his pay and benefits. He received a job offer from BT Corp. that included a significant pay increase, but he turned it down because he felt morally obligated to remain with FX despite its financial troubles. John's feelings toward his organization are best characterized as:

_____ behaviors are behaviors that bring, or are intended to bring, harm to an organization, its employees, or its stakeholders.

A 2010 meta-analysis suggested that pay level was _____ job satisfaction.

According to the theory of planned behavior, an individual's belief about how easy or difficult the performance of a behavior is likely to be is known as:

Since Lucy does not make much money, she knows that missing a day of work may make it difficult for her to pay her rent on time. In this case, Lucy is unlikely to skip work due to:

Recent research has indicated that the job satisfaction-performance relationship is stronger in cultures that are:

There are three general consequences of job commitment: counterproductive behaviors, withdrawal behaviors, and: