By Abdullah Hanif (Reg# 17776)

Motivation, Job design and Performance

Motivation is a psychological feature that

awakens organism to act towards a

desired goal, controls, and sustains certain

goal-directed behaviors.

Motivation

Job DesignA systematic attempt to organize

tasks, duties and responsibilities into

a unit of work to achieve certain

objective

An individual output in terms of quality

and quantity expected from every

employee in a particular job.

Performance

If a job is perfectly designed by using correct ‘Job-Design Approaches’

It will definitely effect upon motivation level of an individual

An increase in motivation level of an employee will increase in Performance level

How are motivation, job design and performance related?

Motivation, job design and performance relationship

Increase in Performance

Increase in

Motivation Level

Effective Job

Design

Job simplificationJob enlargementJob rotationJob enrichment

Job-Design approaches

Job simplification is a design method whereby jobs are

divided into smaller components and subsequently

assigned to workers as whole jobs.

Job simplification

Job enlargement expands job horizontally. It increases

job scope; that is, it increases the number of different

operations required in a job and the frequency with

which the job cycle is repeated

Job enlargement

Job rotation refers to the movement of an employee from

one job to another. Jobs themselves are not actually

changed, only the employee are rotated among various jobs

Job rotation

Job enrichmentJob enrichment is a way to motivate employees by

giving them more responsibilities and variety in their

jobs. a well enriched job should contain a range of tasks

and challenges of varying difficulties, meaningful tasks,

and feedback, encouragement, and communication