unit 2 chapter 6

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Kamogelo Serebolo

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  • Job design

    How organisations define and structure jobs
  • Well designed jobs

    • Can influence motivation and performance
  • Ill designed jobs

    • Can lead to unmotivated employees
  • Job specialisation

    Breaking jobs down into small component tasks, scientifically studying them, and standardising them across all workers doing those jobs
  • Alternatives to job specialisation
    • Job rotation
    • Job enlargement
    • Job enrichment
  • Job rotation

    Systematically moving workers from one job to another in an attempt to minimise monotony and boredom
  • Job enlargement

    Also known as horizontal job loading, is expanding a worker's job to included tasks previously performed by other workers
  • Job enrichment

    Also known as vertical job loading, entails giving workers more tasks to perform and more control over how to perform them
  • Job Characteristics Theory

    Uses five motivational properties of tasks and three critical psychological states to improve outcomes
  • Covid-19 Pandemic had an impact on flexible work arrangements
  • Flexible work arrangements

    • Variable work schedule
    • Compressed work schedule
    • Job sharing
    • Extended work schedules
    • Flexible work schedules
    • Telecommuting
  • Compressed work schedule

    A work schedule in which employees work a full 45-hour week in fewer than the traditional 5 days
  • Job sharing

    Two or more part-time employees share one full-time job
  • Extended work schedules

    Work schedule that requires relatively long periods of work followed by relatively long periods of paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules

    Also known as flexitime, give employees more personal control over the hours they work each day
  • Telecommuting

    Work arrangement in which employees spend part of their time working off-site
  • Goal Setting Theory

    Developed by Edwin Locke in the late 1960s, believed that behaviour is driven by goals and intentions
  • Implication of Goal Setting Theory is that you do the things that you do because you have a goal/objective in mind