Attribution Theory in the Organizational Sciences

Theoretical and Empirical Contributions

Mark J. Martinko

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781593111250
  9781593111267
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607528210
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Negotiation
• Index: Psychology

This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions and delusions. This book contends that there is sufficient evidence to support the view that death anxiety is not only a symptom of certain modes of psychopathology, but is a very normal and central emotional threat human beings deal with only by impeding awareness of the threat from entering consciousness. The immanence of the fear of death requires vigilant defensive and coping techniques, especially the distortion of reality through these defenses and fantasies, so that over-whelming terror does not psychologically cripple the organism. The fear of death is so horrific that human beings must insulate themselves in religious, social, and private illusions, rituals, obsessive pursuits, self-glorification, and myriad desperate attempts to lie about the quintessential nature of reality. Death is that terror that induces psychopathology. This book demonstrates that a careful reading of Freud reveals a copious amount of material supporting these propositions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copy Right
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1: Attribution Theory and Organizational Psychology: An Introduction and Overview
• 2: Social Motivation and Moral Emotions: An Attribution Perspective
• 3: Attributions and the Action Cycle of Work
• 4: Positive and Negative Affect and Explanatory Style as Predicators of Work Attitudes
• 5: Attribution and Burnout: Explicating the Influenceof Individual Factors in the Consequences of Work Exhaustion
• 6: Core Self-Evaluations, Aspirations, Success, and Persistence: An Attributional Model
• 7: An Exploratory Study of Workplace Aggression
• 8: A Preliminary Examination of the Role of Attributions and Emotions in the Transactional Stress Model
• 9: Social Attributional Style: A Conceptual and Empirical Extension of Attributional Style
• 10: Follower Attributions of Leader Manipulativeand Sincere Intentionality: A Laboratory Test of Determinants and Affective Covariates
• 11: Conflict Management: An Attributional Perspective
• 12: An Attributional-Empathy Approach to Conflictand Negotiation in Multicultural Settings
• 13: Antecedents to Dissatisfaction with an International Joint Venture Partner: The Role of Equity Theory and Attribution Theory
• 14: A Theorectical Frame for Post-Crisis Communication: Situational Crisis Communication Theory
• 15: Parting Thoughts: Current Issues and Future Directions
• Index