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    This document discusses job redesign and enrichment. It defines job redesign as changes to increase work quality or productivity. Techniques include job rotation, enlargement, and enrichment. Job enrichment aims to give workers more authority by applying principles like forming natural work units and opening feedback channels. The document also outlines five core job dimensions that make work more motivational: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback.

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    Job Redesign and Job

    Enrichment

    1
    Learning Objectives
     Explain what job design is all about.
     Describe how job rotation, job enlargement, and job
    enrichment work.
     Describe the five core job dimensions and illustrate
    selected enrichment principles that help to create
    these dimensions.
     Explain the significance of MPS and job profile
    charts.

    2
    Learning Objectives (contd.)
     Discuss five job enrichment principles.
     Cite some illustrations of job enrichment in action.
     Discuss four current challenges in job design.

    3
    Job Redesign

    Job redesign refers to any work


    changes that increase work
    quality or productivity

    4
    Job Redesign Techniques

     In job rotation, the workers moves


    from one job to another
     Job enlargement gives the worker
    more to do
     Job enrichment gives the worker more
    authority in planning and controlling the
    work

    5
    Job Rotation
    Assemble
    components
    A, B, and C

    Package the unit and Assemble


    send it to the components
    shipping department D, E, and F

    Paint
    Paintthe
    theouter
    outer Solder the entire
    casing
    casingand
    andattach
    attach unit and put it into
    the
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    decal a casing

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    besure
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    works 6
    Core Job Dimensions
    … are characteristics that make
    work more motivational

    7
    Five Core Job Dimensions
    1. Skill variety is the degree to which jobs require a
    completion of different activities
    2. Task identity involves the degree to which a job
    requires completion of an identifiable piece of work
    3. Task significance is the degree to which a job has
    a substantial impact on others
    4. Autonomy is the degree to which a job provides
    the worker with freedom in carrying it out
    5. Feedback is the degree to which the work provides
    the worker with performance information
    8
    Motivating Potential Score
    The motivating potential score
    measures the presence of core
    job dimensions

    9
    Profile Chart of Core Job Dimensions
    Figure 8.2

    for Three Jobs


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    10
    Example of the Relationship Between Selected Job
    Enrichment Principles and Core Job Dimensions

    JOB ENRICHMENT PRINCIPLES CORE JOB DIMENSIONS

    Forming natural work units Skill variety

    Establishing client relation. Task identity

    Combining tasks Task significance

    Vertical loading Autonomy

    Opening feedback channels Feedback

    11
    Job Enrichment Principles

    1) Formation of natural work units


    2) Establishment of worker-client
    relationships
    3) Combining of tasks
    4) Vertical loading
    5) Opening of feedback channels

    12
    Vertical Loading
    … closes the gap between the
    doing and controlling aspects of
    the job

    13
    Current Challenges in Job Design

    New workplace designs


    The increasing use of teleworkers
    The challenge in dealing with contract
    workers
    Managing hard-to-keep employees

    14
    Key Terms in the Chapter
     Job design  Autonomy
     Job rotation  Feedback
     Job enlargement  Motivating potential
     Core job dimensions score
     Skill variety  Job profile chart
     Task identity  Vertical loading
     Task significance

    15

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