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A job attitude is a set of evaluations of one’s job that express one’s feelings toward, beliefs about, and attachment to one’s job. Job attitudes also equip a structure with global attitudes as a composite of lower-order, more specific attitudes. This system is used to evaluate one’s advancement opportunities by observing one’s job, one’s occupation, or one’s employer.

Defining job attitude
According to a study completed by Timothy A. Judge, and John D. Kanmeyer-Mueller, the long history of research on job attitudes suggests there is no commonly agreed upon definition. The given definition embraces both the cognitive and affective aspects of these certain assessments while also acknowledging that these cognitive and affective components do not necessarily need to be in correspondence with each other. Note that job attitude should not be confused with the definition of attitude. Attitude is defined as a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor. Although the definition of job attitudes is rather simple, there exist traces and complexities that underlie it. In the definition above, the term “job” involves one’s current position, one’s work or one’s occupation, and one’s employer. However, one’s attitude towards his/her work does not necessarily have to be equal with one’s attitudes towards his/her employer, and often these two factors often diverge.

Global job attitude
Global job attitudes are attitudes which are developed towards a job through the organization, working environment, affective disposition, aggregate measures of job characteristics and the social environment. It entirely depends on the broad totality of work conditions. In fact, job attitudes are also closely associated with more global measures of life satisfaction. Scales such as "Faces" enable researchers to interpret overall satisfaction with work. The Job in General scale focuses on the cognitive perspective (rather than applied) of the effects of job attitudes. A variety of job attributes are associated with different levels of satisfaction within global job attitudes.

Other types of job attitudes

 * 1) Job Involvement:  Job Involvement is identifying with one's job and actively participating in it, and considering performance important to self worth.
 * 2) Organizational Commitment:  [Organizational commitment|Organizational Commitment]] is identifying with a particular organization and its goals, and wishing to maintain membership in the organization.
 * 3) Perceived Organizational Support (POS):  Perceived Organizational Support is the degree to which employees feel the organization cares about their well-being.
 * 4) Employee Engagement:  Employee Engagement is an individual's involvement with, satisfaction with, and enthusiasm for the organization.

Facets of job satisfaction
Job facet satisfaction refers to feelings about specific job aspects, such as salary, benefits, and the quality of relationships with one's co-workers.
 * Satisfaction with work: The emotional state of a worker while working is critical to its relationship with job attitudes. Even though a person identifies themselves as a person with a profession such as doctor, lawyer or engineer, it is their well being at work which is a significant aspect to the research of relationship with job attitude. Satisfaction with work can be analyzed by evaluation(I like or dislike my job), cognitively (my work is challenging) and behaviorally (I am reliable).
 * Supervision: Supervision is highly relative to manage productivity. However, supervision can only be taken positively if one increases acceptance of each other.  Therefore, it is important to ensure that positive attitude towards work is implemented.
 * Co-workers: If a workplace is stressful, one common dissatisfaction is with co-workers. A finding has used role theory to see its relationship with job stress and discovered that the source of job stress can be co-workers.
 * Pay and promotion: Under affective bases of commitment and organizational personality orientation, a positive reinforcement for work is known to be the compensation or a simple promotion. This is to show your importance in performance and loyalty towards job.

Emotional exhaustion and job attitude
Fernando Jaramillo, Jay Prakash Mulki, and James S. Boles compared interpersonal conflict and work overload with role stress, emotional exhaustion, job attitude, working smart, job performance, and turnover intentions. The study was conducted in South America within 500 Salespeople. The measurement of the variables interpersonal conflict and work overload with role stress, emotional exhaustion, job attitude, working smart, job performance, and turnover intentions were measured using Model standardized Factor Loadings, and Reliability Indices. A questionnaire was filled by participants and then the ratings were analyzed. This questionnaire was offered in both english and spanish.

A conclusion was made that through emotional exhaustion, interpersonal conflict affect job attitudes. Being in sales is stressful. A Facing cut-throat competition within the company can lead to a bitter relationship with colleagues. This leads to emotional exhaustion. The salesperson gets dissatisfied with their job and eventually affect his or her job attitude. Therefore, it is concluded that through emotional exhaustion, interpersonal conflicts will negatively affect the job attitude of the salesperson. It should also be noted that companies whose workers have positive attitudes are more effective than whose workers do not. There is evidence that companies whose workers have positive attitudes are far more effective than whose workers do not.

Personality and job attitude
A research done by Mark Smith and Jonathan Canger used the five factor model of personality to see if the personality of supervisors has an effect on the attitude of subordinate. The study proposes that job attitude of the subordinates such as job satisfaction and turnover intention will not influence the "satisfaction with the supervisor". However,the personality of the supervisor will have a stronger influence with the subordinate's "satisfaction with the supervisor". The study also proposes that personality traits, in particular agreeableness, extroversion and emotional stability of the supervisor is positively related to subordinate attitude.

It was concluded that the personality of the supervisor has a greater effect on subordinate satisfaction with supervision than the more general work-related attitudes. The results show evidence of various personalities of a supervisor related to the job attitudes of the employees.
 * 1)  Supervisor agreeableness: positively related with satisfaction of employees with the supervisor.
 * 2)  Extroversion: Negatively related to turnover intentions. So extroversion leads to lower turnover intentions.
 * 3)  Emotional Stability: Positively related with supervision satisfaction. Supervisors with greater emotional stability have happier employees.

Job attitude and cyber-loafing
A research was done to examine weather attitudes towards cyber loafing and other loafing behavior follows the actual behavior of cyber loafing. The researchers hypothesize that the employee job attitudes of job involvement and intrinsic involvement are related to cyber loaﬁng. That there will be
 * 1) a negative relationship between job involvement and cyber loafing.
 * 2) a negative relationship between intrinsic involvement and cyber loaﬁng.
 * 3) a positive relationship between the perceived cyberloaﬁng of one’s co-workers and cyber loaﬁng.
 * 4) a positive relationship between managerial support for internet usage and cyber loaﬁng.
 * 5) a positive relationship between one’s non-internet loaﬁng behaviors and cyber loaﬁng.
 * 6) a positive relationship between favorable attitudes towards cyberloaﬁng and cyber loaﬁng.

Employees who have lower job involvement and intrinsic involvement are more likely to involve in cyber loafing behavior. Therefore, manager must create an environment that supports workers and motivates them to make an important contribution. Management should try to increase the commitment of workers. The research also revealed that perception of cyber loafing and the managerial support for internet usage are related to cyber loafing. Often some groups within a company create a norm of social loafing through the internet. The influence of co-workers who are engaging themselves in cyber loafing leads others to engage in cyber loafing behavior. Non - internet loafing behavior and its relationship with cyber loafing had limitations. Chit-chat between two different co workers can be a sign of productivity or it can be a sign of wasting time. So it is difficult to conclude if non - internet social loafing has a relationship with cyber loafing.

Task performance
Data aggregation was done and through constant testing, results showed that it is the job attitude that influences performance and not the performance influencing attitude.

Withdrawal vs. counterproductivity
The effects of job attitudes and turnover was analyzed using sample of 297 males working to maintain railroad. The hypothesis of this study is that employee turnover would be influenced by many job attitude variables. The following was discovered: Identification with organization were directly related to turnover whereas group norm had an indirect relationship with turnover. The study strongly concluded that human relation variables and group norms are variables of job attitude that are directly related to turnover.