Walden Sports Inc. is a fictional outdoor and travel goods company. Through media, you meet the CEO and employees. You take on the role of consultant to Walden Sports; in this role, you are tasked with measuring the job attitudes of employees of this fictional company and with creating a consulting report as your Final Project, which includes analysis of a diagnostic job attitudes survey instrument as well as recommendations to address problems with employee attitudes.

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Walden Sports is an institution that was stated 20 years ago. Over time, it has been able to diversify it service to include all that daring travellers may need, mail order services, insurance services, among many other services. From the time the organization was started up to 6b months ago, the organization realized significant benefits on its sales. This was attributed to the high productivity of the organization’s employees and the good attitude that they had toward the company. Nonetheless, the productivity of the organization has exhibited a declining trend alongside increased poor turnover and absenteeism of the employees.

To understand this, a study was conducted on the attitude of the organization’s employees and analysed so that a recommendation can be suggested to the organization’s CEO for improvement. The paper will begin by giving the background of the study; then Identification of a Diagnostic Job Attitudes Survey Instrument, highlight some of the methods that are to be employed in the assessment and give a highlight of some of the recommendations that if employed by Walden Sports Inc. for better productivity and better attitude by the employees.

Walden Sports is an organization that was started twelve years ago and has diversified to include all that adventurous travellers may need. Among the items that they offer are sleeping bags, guidebooks, tents, maps, insurance, among others. The organisation’s equipment and clothing sales are $1.42 million annually with a gross profit margin of $202, 400. Walden Sport has 70 full-time employees who serve in all the departments of the organization’s activities like marketing, finance and operations. In addition to these, the organization has also in the recent past started a mail order via their website in their bid to meet the needs of the employees in the IT department.