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“ Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ” - Aristotle The above quote aptly justifies the role played by work-related attitudes. It is   attitudes that create the distinction between pleasure and displeasure towards work. Attitudes are evaluative statements reflected towards any object, person or situation. An individual’s behaviour to a great extent is determined by the attitude he carries, which could be positive or negative, favourable or unfavourable, good or bad. The cognitive and affective components of attitude remain hidden and it is the behavoural component that is overt and hence observable. The initiation of attitude occurs with the formation of cognitive component which is the ‘information seeker and analyser’. It gives rise to the emergence of the affective component, which is governed by the emotional and sentimental aspects of human beings. Eventually, it is the affective component that is reflected through our behaviour, which could be desira...

Like many other concepts in management literature, the term VUCA also owes its origin to the United States defense forces. An acronym that stands for V olatile, U ncertain, Complex and A mbiguous, it was coined by the American military in response to the collapse of the bipolar world order. As long as the Cold War between the two superpowers of the world - the US and the former USSR - lasted, the Americans had an identified enemy. But with the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the US Army became ‘disoriented’ in a way. Now the enemy could be anyone and could come from anywhere. This is what the whole concept of VUCA world is about. It is about the world at large becoming very volatile, susceptible to intermittent explosive eruptions. There is a drastic escalation in the level of uncertainty prevailing in the world. There are cut and dried, simple solutions to the problems of the world, so complex have they become. And, there is complete lack of clarity on almost everything und...