Essentials of Job Attitudes and Other Workplace Psychological Constructs

This introductory chapter positions the Essentials of Job Attitudes and Other Workplace Psychological Constructs book. We used SIOP’s (2016) Guidelines for Education and Training in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Attitude Theory, Measurement, and Change to select the topics included in this book—attitude theory, organizational justice, perceived organizational support, organizational identity, job involvement, commitment, job embeddedness, job satisfaction, employee engagement, and team-based attitudes. We note the challenges in providing a thorough review of this literature. Then we define job attitudes and other workplace psychological constructs and discuss why they are important. We end with an overview of the subsequent chapters.