Job Design

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• Performance and motivation

• Job satisfaction

• Physical and mental health

Job Design Influences

3 Types of Distribution of Task Outcomes*

“Foot soldier”: low upside, low downside of performance variance

“Guardian”: low upside, high downside of performance variance

“Star”: high upside, low downside of performance variance

* Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers, James N. Baron, David M. Kreps

Current Past Events

A Pirate’s Life

• The pirate ship ‘bounty’ has recently been…acquired.

• With you group design jobs (crew) for the new ship

Design Issues:

• Necessity• Strategy • Availability of Skills • Organizational Issues • Resources

Questions & Considerations

• What tasks are done?• When and how the tasks are done• How many tasks are done?• In what order the tasks are done?• Factors which affect the work.• Organization of the content and tasks

Walk the plank..

• Task Significance • Autonomy • Feedback

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