Attitude is a consistent manner of thinking, feelings and reaction to people, groups and social issues in one’s environment.
It is a learnable habit or behaviour, which can be exhibited knowingly or unknowingly in the course of work, education or training.
Therefore, in summary; Right Attitude means having positive way of thinking, behaviour and perception to life.
Right Attitude in all spheres brings success and productivity.
Right attitude to work brings increased productivity, and leads to progress, growth and development. It also includes patriotism, tolerance, Joy, satisfaction, security, truthfulness, kindness, gentleness and prudence.
Moreso, Right Attitude to work refers to the positive practice of job behaviour, duties or functions and approach with every form of seriousness.
It shows the willingness and ability to engage in group or collective work for the sole aim of helping oneself and mankind.
Right attitude to work encourages and promotes higher productivity. This means that individuals produce more and give their best when they work or operate with the Right Attitude.
The Right Attitude to work brings out the best potentials in individuals and leads to job satisfaction, prosperity and job security. It is important to note that the aim of every work, is to provide service and the right attitude to work will ensure provision of meaningful and useful service to the institution, firm or establishment, fellow workers and the public as a whole.
Right Attitude to work will open way to efficiency in the management and better utilisation of natural and human resources. Right Attitude to work creates a broad way for progress in every area of human endeavour.
Right Attitude to work begins with passion and dedication to job, its duties or responsibilities and leads to great achievement and progress.
Workers with the Right Attitude are usually efficient and productive, and can achieve a lot within the shortest time frame. Efficiency is the bye-product of Right Attitude to work. It is therefore most advisable that workers should cultivate the Right Attitude to work in order to be efficient and productive.
Right Attitude adds value to both the employees and the employer at all times. A worker with the Right Attitude is highly valued and appreciated by reasonable and responsible manager team leader or employer because the Right Attitude grows an establishment positively.
Right Attitude to work is an empowerment and an enabler.
Therefore, for any organisation, establishment, State or nation to make substantial progress or development, its workers or citizens must have the Right Attitude to work.
An organization or establishment may have abundant resources, large number of work force but if the workers do not have the Right Attitude to work; the abundant resources will not only lose value but cannot be well managed.
For instance, if a medical doctor does not have the Right Attitude to work, his or her patients will definitely suffer more and possibly die.
In like manner, if a manager, does not possess the Right Attitude to work, the workforce will either vie off-course or subsequently have the company collapse to extinction. In the same vein, if workers do not have the Right Attitude to work, and as such do not respond to their duties or jobs responsibly and responsively; the organisation or institution will not only suffer but may completely close shop.
It is therefore most vital that people otherwise workers maintain the Right Attitudes to work at all times.
Extending further, is the attributes that can occasion, support and advance workers Right Attitudes to job operations:
1. Honesty: This is the quality of being truthful, sincere and straight forward in dealing with an establishment, customers, fellow staff and by extension, the entire members of society. A person is expected to be honest to the to self, establishment, industrial set-up and the various segments of the society.
2. Integrity: This relates to doing what is right always, being faithful and dedicated to whatever duty one is called to. Integrity breeds trust and reliance. It portrays one as a person who is highly principled and does not easily give-in to dishonesty, in whatever stand or course his firm is pursuing or undertaking.
3. Commitment: Right Attitude to work gives rise to commitment to duty. Duty consciousness is important. Committed persons are not selfish. He is always prepared to make sacrifices with time, energy, talent and resources, in order to achieve good name for himself and his nation.
4. Punctuality: Right attitude to work detests ‘African time’ syndrome’ i.e coming to work or attending official functions or events behind schedule, waste of man-hour, it shuns absenteeism, eye service, procrastination, etc. It encourages being up and doing with the right thing at the right time and place, and doing it the most appropriate way. Punctuality makes people to form the good habit of observing first things first and well.
5. Consistency: Right Attitude to work encourages consistency, which has
to do with high degree of reliability, steadfastness and durability in production, distribution and exchange of goods and services in the economy. Consistency brings satisfaction and
stimuli to both the givers and receivers of the services rendered.
6. Regularity: Right Attitude to work promotes regular attendance to work, meetings, social activities, etc. It also provides for recreation and resumption of work, reward and other motivations. All these help to promote the tone of the institution, organisation and the society.
7. Diligence: Right Attitude encourages the practice of being active, and hard-working in all areas of life. Diligence attempts to remove the problem of waste of time and other unessential materials.
8. Transparency: This has to do with being open-minded; not harbouring negative habits or feelings that could bring about conflicts in work places, Company environment and government office and the society.
It is also expedient to mention that Poor attitude to work gives rise to many forms of acts among workers. And, this has caused many to lose interest in their paid jobs.
They no longer do what they are employed to do. Some play truancy in the office, embezzle Company or public money and in public or Civil Service cases, convert government property to private use. Poor Attitude to work causes abuse of office and power.
Even in trading business, people adopt tricks or cheating the helpless ones; and the social life of the people becomes polluted with indecent behaviour.
