1. Job design What is job design and why is it important?
What are the approaches used in designing jobs?

2. Job design What is a job? What is job design? Job design approaches
Scientific management approaches.
Psychological approaches.

3. Scientific management approach
A.K.A. as industrial engineering.
Focus on efficiency.
Job simplification is one method.

4. Psychological approach
Motivation results from work that provides intrinsic rewards.
These rewards satisfy higher-order needs of esteem and growth.
The job characteristics model follows the psychological approach to work redesign (see Exhibit 14.8).
Core job dimensions
Critical psychological states/outcomes
Employee growth-need strength.

5. Core job dimensions
Examine job traits to determine job’s motivational potential.
Skill variety
Task identity
Task significance
Autonomy
Feedback

6. Skill variety Number of different skills and talents required.
Job rotation is one method.

7. Task identity
Degree to which an employee performs a total job with a recognizable beginning and end.
Job enlargement is one method.

8. Task significance
Degree to which the job is perceived as important and having impact on the company or consumers.
Job enlargement can also increase task significance.

9. Autonomy
Degree to which the worker has freedom, discretion, and self-determination in planning and carrying out tasks.
One method that attempts to increase job autonomy is job enrichment.

10. Feedback
The extent to which the job provides information back to the employee about his/ her performance.
When job design itself cannot provide direct feedback, need to obtain feedback from supervisors or peers.

11. Critical psychological states/outcomes
Intrinsic rewards from job traits
Skill variety, task identity, and task significance-> experienced meaningfulness of work.
Autonomy -> experienced responsibility.
Feedback -> knowledge of work results.
The psychological states leads to personal and work outcomes

12. Employee growth-need strength
Moderating factor: people have different needs for growth and development.