MGCR 222 Lecture 10: Designing Jobs-10.1

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Mallika Banerjee

Document Summary

The goal of a job design is to: identify the characteristics that make some tasks more motivating than others, captures these differences in the design of jobs, attempts to capitalize on intrinsic motivation. Job rotation: the periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another. Job enlargement: increasing the number and variety of tasks. Job enrichment: increasing the degree to which the worker controls planning, execution and evaluation of the work. Job enrichment: high intrinsic motivation, high work performance, high work satisfaction, low absenteeism. High variety auditing work, lead meeting, biz development, conduct performance. High identity self-managed team of auto workers that take order and complete the car. High significance product manager help raise funds for the product by meeting vcs and angel investors. High autonomy google programmer given ambiguous project and asked to develop timeline for completion. High feedback trader, market gives you feedback on your trades.