COMM 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Paq, Human Resources, Job Analysis
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Designing and analyzing jobs (1) distinguish between different types of organizational structures. Three basic types of organizational structure: bureaucratic, flat, boundaryless (joint ventures) Increasing emergence of work teams and virtual teams: re-engineering: fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvement in contemporary measures of performance. Workers become collectively responsible with overall result than being help responsible individually (2) explain the key components of job design. Job design: process of systemically organizing work into tasks that are required to perform a specific job. Job: group of related activities and duties held by a single/number of employee(s) Position: collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person. Industrial engineering: study concerned withed analyzing work methods; making work cycles more efficient by modifying, combine, rearranging, or eliminating tasks; and establishing time standards (vs work simplification) Job enlargement (horizontal loading): assigning workers additional tasks at the same level of responsible to increase number of tasks they have to perform.
