Organizational Behavio: Cognative and Emotional Dissonance at the James-William Organization.

LEARNING ISSUES 1.<Tab/>What is Cognitive Dissonance and how it happens? According to Steven L. McShane and Mary Ann Von Glinow in the Organizational Behaviour book had mentioned that emotions and attitudes usually lead to behaviour, but behaviour sometimes influences our attitudes through the process of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance occurs when we perceive an inconsistency creates an uncomfortable tension (dissonance) that we are motivated to reduce by changing one or …

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