Job Attitudes and Learned Helplessness: Implications for Individual Competitiveness in Indian Industries

In the era of change, restructuring, learning and growth, and above all uncertainty, organizations face dual challenge. On one end is tile challenge of ensuring continued performance of employees, their motivation, their ability enhancement and their career growth. On the other hand is separation of non-performing employees, less job security, constant pressure of the environment and search for stability and predictability. Employee attitudes are therefore very relevant to increasing competitiveness. The present study is an attempt to empirically analyze how environmental commitment in terms of their controllability influence job involvement and organizational commitment in organizations. The present work has been undertaken as a preliminary study to understand the relationship between learned helplessness and job attitudes in terms of organizational commitment and job involvement of the employees of heavy engineering plant and that of a bank. The result is discussed with implications for increasing competitiveness.