GMS 401 Lecture Notes - Canada Labour Code, Job Enrichment, Job Rotation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Kirk Bailey

Document Summary

Job design: specifying the content(what) and method(how) of a job. Chapter 7 design of work systems: objective is productivity, safety, and quality of work life, two basic elements of job design: Efficiency school: emphasizes a systematic, logical approach to labor cost reduction: behavioral school: emphasizes satisfaction of wants and needs of. Efficiency approach workers as a motivator for increased productivity. Specialization: focusing the job to a narrow scope. Job rotation: workers periodically exchange jobs: allow workers to broaden their learning experience and enable them to fill in for other and avoid repetitive motion injuries. Job enrichment: increasing responsibility for planning and coordination: vertical loading additional work on higher skill and responsibility from the original job. Importance of these approaches to job design is to increase motivational power of jobs by increasing worker satisfaction through improvement in quality of work life. Method analysis: breaks down the job into a sequence of tasks and elements and improves it.