In this research, the concepts of attitude and personality trait as well as their roles in agents’ decision-making concepts are discussed with regard to job selection and team member selection in multiagent team formation. This research introduces the concept of attitude to guide an agent’s behavior and personality trait to model other agents’ behavior tendency and identify helpfulness of them ...

The present study examines how collectivism, an important cultural value, plays a moderating role in the association between job attitudes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) and actual turnover in a sample of 781 Chinese female workers. Results show that collectivism moderates the relationships between job attitude variables and turnover intention. Job satisfaction and organizatio...

BACKGROUND Organizational culture refers to the beliefs and values that have existed in an organization for a long time, and to the beliefs of the staff and the foreseen value of their work that will influence their attitudes and behavior. Administrators usually adjust their leadership behavior to accomplish the mission of the organization, and this could influence the employees' job satisfacti...

This study aims to examine the mechanism of shared capitalism operation at the individual level. Building on both psychology and economic literatures, this study anticipates that shared capitalistic practices influence employees' feeling of ownership, which mediates the relationship between shared capitalism plans and employees' attitudes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Furth...

BACKGROUND Safety attitude surveys have been widely conducted in various disciplines, but not among respiratory therapists (RTs), to assess clinician's awareness of patient safety. We conducted a nationwide survey in Taiwan to assess RTs' safety attitudes in several hospital settings. METHODS We adapted the Safety Attitude Questionnaire for RTs, and, via the RTs' union, invited all Taiwan RTs...

Organizational commitment and employee job satisfaction are presented in the literature as key work atti tudes leading to higher organizational performance. This paper examines the extent to which transformational leadership and organizational culture influence employees' attitudinal outcomes, as well as the effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment. Data for the study was collect...

Article history: Received 22 August 2013 Available online 5 December 2013 Research has shown that job satisfaction is determined by both cognitions about the job and affect at work. However, findings from basic and applied attitude research suggest that the extent to which attitudes are based on affective and cognitive information is contingent on stable individual differences, in particular ne...

The present investigation studied the lab-to-field generalizability of Fishbein's attitude-behavior model and examined the relative efficacy of the Fishbein model and traditional job attitude measures as predictors of absenteeism and turnover. Predictor data were collected from 108 nursing home employees immediately preceding the two-month time period of interest. Criterion data were obtained a...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of gender on employees' perception of job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Gender plays an important role in creating individual attitudes pertaining [Q lite workplace and in im~rprG[jng lhe meowing of lh~c ~lttjluue::;. Survey data was gathered fwm 112 employees in Labuan. Regression results showed that both male and female employee...

Using a sample of male and female workers from the 1992 Employment in Britain survey we estimate a generalised grouped zero-inflated Poisson regression model of employees’ selfreported lateness. Reflecting theoretical predictions from both psychology and economics, lateness is modelled as a function of incentives, the monitoring of and sanctions for lateness within the workplace, job satisfacti...