Generally success of an organization is dependent on the profitability of every individual. In small organizations the profitability requirement per individual is generally higher compared to a larger organization. To achieve this high profitability individuals and team must innovate, which is possible only when individuals have the right attitude. Individuals who have positive attitudes generally also are good innovators. Innovation is one of the key elements on which small companies survive...
Achieving success in your career isn’t just about brains, talents and networking. It is also about attitude. Attitude is a person's perspective towards a specified target. Attitude is "a way of looking at life". What then is your way of looking at work? Your attitude at work determines your career, its quality and path. Is it positive…
Attitude towards work can be analyzed in two ways. Work Attitude Behavior and Work Behavior Attitude. While most people use these phrases quite interchangeably pointing to the same thing, its important to note that they are two different things in reality. To state the difference in a simple manner:
1. Work Attitude Behavior describes how an individual feels about his work and his approach towards work which is not measurable but felt by others.
2. Work Behavior attitude describes the way you do the work and the way you get the work done which is measurable.
To summarize, work attitude is the way you feel your work. It is how you feel about your work in the subconscious. Ex. Passion about work, happiness and joy about work etc. If your work attitude is positive, it shows in your expressions, body language while the enthusiasm spills out.
On the other hand, work behavior attitude refers to the implementation part or the physical part of your work. It could simply be called ‘your action at work place’. It refers to your acquired skills, the energy levels you show at work that gives you tangible results. If your work behavior attitude is positive, its obvious that the energy levels are always high and thus the work gets done faster. Obstacles in such a case seem far too minute to distract a person from the goal.
Though each of the attitude mentionedabove compliments the other, it does not necessarily mean that work attitude behavior leads to work behavior attitude. Well, most of the time it might not!
When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated others. Individuals with good Work Attitude behavior and good work behavior attitude generally perform better and contribute to the growth of the organization. Individuals who have positive attitudes generally also are good innovators. Innovation is one of the key elements on which small companies survive. Let’s take a quick look at what are the other types of attitudes that leads to work related positive attitudes.
1. Disciplinary attitude - People who value time and do right things at the right time and who do things on time.
2. Learning attitude - People who like to learn, keep an open mind, are willing to lend a listening ear to learn new things.
3. Polite attitude - People who respect others, who are polite, who treat everybody else just as they treat themselves.
4. Planning attitude - People who plan well, strategize and ensure that they have everything under control so that work gets done on time.
Group of individuals working together with these attitudes generally contribute to the growth of the organization. These groups are very important for small organizations. Its my observation that companies large or small which do not have groups of individuals with good work attitude generally fail. So it attitude of individuals becomes all the more important for the success of a small organization. After all, some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible….
Ramkishan B K, Co-Founder and VP - Analytix and Consulting, ISACGlobal
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