ADMN 2220H Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Telecommuting, Flextime, Workaholic
29 Mar 2017
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Job design (assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs: what tasks the employees will actually be performing, contacts they will have, etc. Scientific management: fredrick taylors system for using research to determine the optimum degree of specialization and standardization for a job task, emphasizes work simplification (standardization and the narrow specification of task activities) Makes work boring, under stimulating: jobs designed through scientific management have a limited number of tasks and is specific so that the worker does not have to think, leads to work alienation. Meaningfulness (value of a work goal judged in relation to an individuals standards: depends on the work centrality (a persons beliefs regarding the degree of importance that work plays in their life) in the country. Linked to workaholism (individuals steady allocation of time to work) Married people work more than unmarried people.
