ADM 2337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Enrichment, Industrial Engineering, Job Design
13 Apr 2020
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Job design: an outgrowth of job analysis concerned with structuring jobs through technological and human considerations to enhance organization efficiency and employee job satisfaction. Concerned with changing, modifying, enriching jobs to capture the talents of employees while improving organizational performance. It is a combination of four basic considerations. Job design methods that seek to incorporate the behavioural needs of employees as they perform their jobs. The two methods of job enrichment and job characteristics are popular with researchers and practitioners. Definition: enhancing a job by adding more meaningful tasks and duties to make the work more rewarding or satisfying. To fulfil high motivational needs of self-fulfilment and self esteem. Job enrichment or the vertical expansion of jobs may be accomplished by increasing the autonomy and responsibility of employees. Allow employees to assume a greater role in the decision making process and become more involved in planning, organizing, directing and controlling their work.
