Chapter 5 Job Analysis‚ Job Design and Quality of Work Life Learning Objectives • Explain what is meant by job analysis and job design. • Understand the uses of job analysis. • Describe the content of a job description and a job specification. • Discuss the collection of job analysis data. • Explain the major methods of job analysis. • Discuss competency profiling. • Understand the major approaches to job design. • Discuss quality of work life‚ employee participation and industrial democracy
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(HRPD-701) Instructor: Wenlu Feng Lecture 2: Job Analysis and Job Design (Reference reading: Chapter 2 of the text) Job analysis—The procedure for determining the tasks and responsibilities of each a job‚ and the human attributes (in terms of knowledge‚ skills‚ and abilities) required to perform the job. The outcomes of job analysis will be: Job description (what the job entails)‚ Job specifications (what the human requirements are needed for the job). Job analysis is something called the cornerstone
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have been sufficient changes regarding job design over the past decades‚ including the rising popularity of new practices such as employee involvement (Maxwell‚ Richard & Sandra 2008). With new induction of theories‚ an analysis to illustrate the similarities and differences was made between the content and process theories; chosen theories being the two-factor theory and equity theory respectively. Implications of integrating various theories like the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) by Herzberg
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Employee motivation and job satisfaction have always been an important issue in an organization‚ but few organizations have not made motivation and job satisfaction top priorities or even neglected the issue at times. The failure of the managers in the organization to determine the motivational factors of the employees will create dissatisfaction of the employees which will eventually result to the decrease in productivity of the employees
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A Question of Motivation Florence Adepoju‚ Traci Howard‚ Ashley Jackson‚ & Nadia Syahmalina BMGT 364: Management and Organization Theory Professor Steiger September 23‚ 2012 Introduction The case study‚ A Question of Motivation‚ explores the various types of leadership styles that affect the motivation of the employee. Jonathan and Dan have two different managerial styles. Jonathan‚ a supervisor in the supermarket‚ varies the duties of his subordinates (Robbins & Judge). In contrast
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Speculating the Limits of Theory by Malini Foobalan As a second year architecture student‚ I find myself speculating about things that I never thought I would. The question to myself in fact‚ is why I care questioning‚ and what is it that has made me come up with such questions. Is it the influence of people around me‚ my developing critical thinking or‚ is it an arbitrary questioning that a typical architecture student would engage in? One of my favorite questions is
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Most research in job design suggests taking a look at the aspect of job structure. This structure tells us how these elements in a job are organized can act to increase or decrease effort. When I took a look at the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) it describes five core job dimensions that managers should look into to increase motivation within employees. I have heard employees say “I only come to work for this easy check‚ there is nothing to do here but eat‚ sleep and the most work if any is when
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A Research on Arts&Crafts Movement and Bauhaus 1. Introduction Arts and Crafts Movement and Bauhaus are two major movements in design history. In this paper‚ the author aims at making an overview of the two movements including the historical‚ cultural and social context and revealing the philosophy behind each movement. In order to obtain an in-depth understanding‚ the author chooses William Morris from the Arts and Crafts Movement and Walter Gropius from Bauhaus and their significant artworks
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Ethical Considerations and Applying Design Principles Ethical Considerations As a programmer you have to think about ethical issues that may appear in our user interface design. I believe we should think about these ethical issues early in the design process‚ even before building a prototype or developing the interface. The requirements should cover ethical issues. Ethical concerns raised by features of the system should be considered in the very first phases of systems development. If ethics
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Employee Motivation Theories and Concepts XXXX for Professor XXXX WRT 312 (Critical Analysis & Research Writing) Employee motivation theories and concepts Numerous theories on the subject of employee motivation have been developed and published for the better part of this century. While early employers thought of their workers as just another input into the production of goods and services (Lindner‚ 1998)‚ employees were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with working conditions and
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