MANAGEMENT EXAM - JOB DESIGN FOR MOTIVATION

Job Enlargement

- Employees may be responsible for three or four jobs and will have more time to do them. - Job enlargement provides job variety and a greater challenge for employees.

Job Rotation

- Increases the number of of different tasks an employee performs without increasing the complexity of any one job. - Novelty does wear off as the repetitive work is mastered.

Types of Job Design

- Job simplification - Job rotation - Job enlargement

Job Simplification

- Worker has more time to focus on doing more of the same routine task. - As a motivational technique, job simplification has failed. - People dislike routine and boring jobs and react in a numbering of negative ways e.g. sabotage, absenteeism, unionisation.

Job Enrichment

refers to a job design that incorporates achievement recognition and other high level motivators into the work.

Job Rotation

refers to a job design that systematically moves employees from one job to another to provide them with variety and simulation.

Job Simplification

refers to a job design whose purpose is to improve task efficiency by reducing the number of tasks a single person must perform.

Job Enlargement

refers to a job that combines a series of tasks into one new, broader job to give employees variety and challenge.

Job Design

refers to the application of motivational theories to the structure of work for improving productivity and satisfaction.