Attitudes and related topics

by

S. UMAPATHI, IPS

Special Director(Trg.),

APPA

YOU MUST

SUCEED

IN

YOUR LIFE

TO

SUCCEED

YOU

NEED

AMBITION

TO SUCCEED YOU ALSO NEED

BELIEF

FURTHER, TO

SUCCEED YOU NEED

INITIATIVE

WHAT ELSE?

YOU NEED STRATEGY

TO SUCCEED

YOUR LIFE IS IN YOUR HANDS

YOUR LIFE

PERSONAL LIFE

HOME LIFE

WORK LIFE

Physically – ActiveMentally – Alert Intellectually – InspiredSpiritually – AwakenedEmotionally – BalancedMorally – Strengthened

LIFE

So as to be SOCIALLY RELEVANT

MAKING LIFE SOCIALLY RELEVANT

SELF-MGT

LIFE MGT

MIND MGT

DEV. MGT

YOUR LIFE NEEDS SELF MANAGEMENT

WHAT IS LIFE?

YOUR

K+S+W

LIFE

D.O.B. D.O.D.

COMING GOING

GROWING

TIME

L = T

T. I . M . E.

T = TALENT

I = INTELLIGENCE

M = MONEY

E = ENERGYSAVE T.I.M.E. * CREATE WEALTH

FOUR PURUSHARDHAS

Dharma Artha Kama Moksha

• D + A + K + M • [D+A] [D+K] [D+M]

YOUR LIFEHow much of what

and in what combination

you would like to have in your life?

A

Dharma K

M

OR

A

Adharma K

M

LOVE – THE MOST BASIC HUMAN VALUE

LOVE

IN SPEECH TRUTH

IN ACTION RIGHTEOUSNESS

IN THOUGHT PEACE

IN UNDERSTANDING NON- VIOLENCE

Your attitude determines your altitude.

What is your attitude?

ATTITUDE • Self

• Others

• Work

• Wealth

• World

• Worship

• Winning

• Wisdom

• Worry

• Learning

Towards

• Mother • Motherland • Women / Men

Definition of Empathy

• Understanding what others are feeling because you have experienced it yourself or can put yourself in their shoes.

Definition of Sympathy

• Acknowledging another person's emotional hardships and providing comfort and assurance.

Definition of Spirit of Service

• The aim here is "cultivating the spirit of service, meaning you will be opening your heart, your mind, your resources, and your calendar to the needs of others.

Definition of Trustworthiness

• Trustworthiness is a moral value considered to be a virtue. A trustworthy person is someone in whom you can place your trust and rest assured that the trust shall not be betrayed. A person can prove their trustworthiness by fulfilling an assigned responsibility - and as an extension of that, not to let down expectations.

Definition of Trustworthiness

• A trustworthy person is someone that you can tell your worries and secrets to and know they won't repeat them without your permission. In general, in order for trust to be earned, worth and integrity must be proven over time.

Definition of Commitment

• Making a commitment involves dedicating yourself to something, like a person or a cause. Before you make a commitment, think carefully. A commitment obligates you to do something.

Definition of Commitment Some commitments are large, like marriage. When you take a job, you're making a

commitment to show up and do the job well, and your employer makes a commitment to pay you.

There are smaller commitments too. If you said you'd meet a friend at six, that's a commitment.

You also can speak of commitment as a quality. Studying in the Library after class hours shows

your commitment for achieving good rank.

Definition of Attitude• An attitude is an expression of favor or disfavor

toward a person, place, thing, or event.

• Attitudes are the most distinctive and indispensable concepts in contemporary social psychology - Gordon All port.

• Attitude can be formed from a person's past and present.

• Attitude is also measurable and changeable as well as influencing the person's emotion and behavior.

Definition of Attitude

• Attitudes are explicit (i.e., deliberately formed) versus implicit (i.e., subconscious) has been a topic of considerable research.

• They tend to effective people’s behaviour, in different ways.

• Rational (thinking, feeling, and irrational attitudes (sensing and intuition)

• Attitude contains cognitive, affective and behavioral components.

• People need to maintain an organized, meaningful, and stable view of the world.

• Important values and general principles can provide a framework for our knowledge.

• Attitudes achieve this goal by making things fit together and make sense. Example:

• I believe that I am a good person.• I believe that good things happen to good

people.• Something bad happens to Venkat• So I believe Venkat must not be a good person

Knowledge related attitude

• This function involves psychoanalytic principles where people use defense mechanisms to protect themselves from psychological harm. Mechanisms include:

• Denial• Repression• Projection• Rationalization

Downward Comparison Theory (DCT)

(Derogating a less fortunate person increases your own subjective well-being).

Ego-defensive related attitude

Learning … formation of Attitudes

FOA

Persons

PlacesThings

FOA

Classical conditioning

Instrumental conditioning

Social learning

Emotion and Attitude Change

• Emotion is a common in persuasion, social influence and attitude change.

• Emotional appeals are commonly found in advertising, health campaigns and political messages.

Components of emotion appeals

Jealousy

Fear

DisgustDisturbed

Anger

Haunted

Definition of Aptitude

• An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered "talent".

• Aptitudes may be physical or mental.

• Aptitude is not knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired abilities (skills) or attitude.

• Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes.

• Integrity is a personal choice, an uncompromising and predictably consistent commitment to honour moral, ethical, spiritual and artistic values and principles

• Integrity has qualities such as honesty and consistency of character.

Definition of Integrity

• In discussions on behavior 

and morality, an individual is said to possess the virtue of integrity if the individual's actions are based upon an internally consistent framework of principles.

• Core group of values, virtues, beliefs, methods, measures and principles.

• Accountability – Moral responsibility

Integrity in Ethics

• neutrality, equity, fairness, equality,  detachment, objectivity, disinterest, open-mindedness, even-handedness, 

disinterestedness, dispassion, nonpartisanship,

opposite to bias,  favouritism,  unfairness,  subjectivity,  partisanship, partiality

Meaning of Impartiality

Four Components of moral behavior

1. Moral sensitivity, which is "the ability to see an ethical dilemma, including how our actions will affect others.

2. Moral judgment, which is "the ability to reason correctly about what 'ought' to be done in a specific situation.

3. Moral motivation, which is "a personal commitment to moral action, accepting responsibility for the outcome.

4. Moral character, which is a courageous persistence in spite of fatigue or temptations to take the easy way out.

• Competitors are giving bribes to obtain business (which can cause the misuse of the country’s resources)

• The pressure for higher levels of performance by top management and shareholders

• This is an accepted practice in the host country.• Tax laws of the country encourage bribery. It can be

written off as a business expense.• Government control over business activities.• Government officials are poorly paid and use bribery to

supplement salaries.• Bureaucratic delays can be costly for business.• Pressure from politicians to make contributions to

political parties or causes.

Factors that push businesses to pay bribes

HABITS

Good Habits Bad Habits

Are hard to form

But, easy to live with

Are easy to form

But, hard to live with.

CHARACTER THE CHARACTER OF A PERSON CONSISTS OF ALL

THE QUALITIES HE HAS THAT COMBINE TO FORM HIS PERSONALITY

YOUR CHARACTER IS YOUR PERSONALITY, CONSIDERED ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO HOW HONEST AND RELIABLE YOU ARE?

IF WEALTH IS LOST, NOTHING IS LOST

IF HEALTH IS LOST, SOMETHING IS LOST

IF CHARACTER IS LOST, EVERTHING IS LOST

BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

SIDDHARTHABECOMES

GOWTHAMA THE BUDDHA

NARENDRA BECOMES

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

MOHAN DASBECOMES

MAHATMA GANDHI

• PLEASE DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO BECOME.

• LET THE COUNTRY FEEL PROUD OF YOU.

Thanks For your

patient listening !