Job attitudes are umbrella terms under which an array of psychological concepts has been explored. The purpose of the present study is to outline representative job attitudes in the area of industrial and organizational psychology. Among those concepts, we addressed job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job embeddedness, social exchange relevant variables, and other variables. Specifically, perceived organizational support, exchange quality, affective commitment, trust, and psychological contract are considered social exchange relevant and organizational identification, engagement, job involvement, justice, psychological empowerment, and person-environment fit are addressed as other variables. We critically discuss the current state of research on job attitudes, suffering from conceptual proliferation. The need to reorganize the proliferating concepts of job attitudes from a theoretical perspective was pointed out.
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