Attitudes toward work or the workplace are important aspects that greatly determine the performance outcomes of many business organizations. Attitudes toward work or the workplace are beliefs and feelings of a worker that influence how he or she values work.
Work attitudes could be viewed in two main ways. First, job attitudes could reflect global feelings about a worker’s job satisfaction. Second, job attitudes could be as a result of objective assessments of certain factors of the job such as salaries and working conditions. The readings of the course present classical examples of perspectives on work that shape organizations culture of productivity and individual worker’s prospects of growth.
It is important for workers in business organizations to appreciate their jobs and aim at achieving exemplary results. The story of the three little pigs exhibits two perspectives on work. The mother of the pigs advised them that it was important for them to act in a manner that they could achieve the best things in life.
However, the first and second little pigs did not build good houses that were strong enough to protect them from being eaten by a wolf. They exhibited a negative attitude toward achieving good things in life through their activities. This could be analyzed in the context of the workplace where some workers could have negative attitudes toward work and they do not show good performances. Such workers could be fired for low-quality performance outcomes.
On the other hand, the third little pig that constructed a strong house could not be killed by a wolf. This could be used to reflect the performances of workers in the workplace who are characterized by positive attitudes toward work. Such workers cannot be easily fixed by the management because they help organizations to achieve their goals. This illustration is similar to those presented in the mellow yellow, lunar craft rights, and video rights resources.
The perspectives on work that focus on the best attributes of work are comparable in some ways. For example, the perspectives on work could greatly determine the output of workers and organizations. If many workers have attitudes that make them work for an organization, then such an organization could have excellent performance outcomes because of the combined efforts of workers toward achieving the organization’s goals.
Also, such attitudes are characterized by a large extent to which workers separate their personal lives from work lives. They dedicate their attention and energies to work when they are in the workplace and they achieve their best personal goals when they are away from the workplace. This is best illustrated in the video and mellow yellow resources.
On the other hand, the perspectives are characterized by some distinct contrasts. For example, they are from individuals, and they could differ significantly among different persons in the workplace. Individual differences could imply that workers with different attitudes toward producing excellent performances could yield varying degrees of results.
One of the similarities of attitudes toward work that view work negatively is that they focus on salaries. Thus, workers with such perspectives do not focus on making organizations realize better results.
Also, such perspectives concentrate on short-term goals rather than long-term goals that could help both an organization and a worker. However, the main contrast in the perspectives is that they could vary from one individual to another. Thus, they could have varying degrees of negative impact on a business establishment.