The management of a company has an interest in changing the attitudes mostly towards ethics, change management processes, safety practices, and workforce diversity.
A 1+1=2 process says that if you change beliefs or values you consequently will change attitudes and influence behaviors. It is fairly difficult especially nowadays when people are aware that there is life beyond work.
Cognitive dissonance theory suggests that the change in attitude can be influenced by exercising the desired behavior. You create an example of the desired behavior, use trainings for role-playing, and give positive feedback to reinforce it.
Only that … the moment in which the management decide to take interest in changing attitudes is when a crisis happen. In the panic that comes with incompetent managers, capable to ask the CEO not why they have to jump, but how high they have to, the rest of the employees have only one choice:
You have to change your attitude or else … .
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