Your attitude next to a subject (thing or person) is an evaluation process. The components are your feelings, beliefs and your predisposition to act towards the subject in a certain manner.
Your values are always editing your attitudes. When a value combines with information from the environment about the subject they will have a positive output if they fit or a negative output if they are in contradiction.
This combination of values and beliefs is your attitude. And your attitude will dictate your behavior, except the case in which you are forced or in need to behave against your values or beliefs.
In organizational behavior the most obvious application is the reaction to your boss. A manager is always assimilated with the most accessible image of the company.
- Belief – I do not like my boss.
- Value – My boss is my connection with the company.
- Attitude – I do not like this company and my job here.
Guess what the materialization of this process will be?
Behavior – I will find another job.
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