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Measures of job satisfaction are directly linked to theories of attitudes. Discuss this premise. Introduction It seems that today many organisations recognise the importance that an organisation should be somehow attuned to the feelings of its personnel; nonetheless, this was not always the case. For instance, Schultz (1978) explains how "in the scientific era when the worker was considered to be just another machine, there was no interest in job satisfaction - after all, a machine does not have attitudes whatsoever" (Schultz, 1978, p.272). The way in which industry attempted to improve production during that time was almost entirely through the development of more effective selection techniques. However, the human relations focus considerably changed this view and it became evident that workers' productivity was not only a function of their skills and abilities, but also of their attitudes. This was followed by uptight efforts to measure attitudes and to train...

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