ABSTRACT
This chapter will also look at research in a number of these areas. The focus will be on how, when and why these attitudes, beliefs and value systems predict behaviour at work. This chapter will also explore the concept of style. There is a vast literature on style – cognitive style, learning style, attribution style, and coping style. For some, the concept of style is a nice bridge between traits and abilities while for others it is a poor muddled compromise. Some attitudinal variables are extremely well researched and ignored. Thus, there is a great interest in job satisfaction, which has been variously conceived as work commitment, or engagement or centrality (Hirschfeld & Field, 2000). Most studies on these topics have tried to identify the causes, correlates and consequences of these beliefs.
