BUSI 2301 Lecture Notes - Work Sampling, Job Enrichment, Job Design
5 Mar 2014
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Job design involves specifying the content and methods of job: what will be done, how the job will be done. Objectives of job design: productivity safety, safety, quality of work life. These approaches have the potential to increase the motivational power of jobs by increasing worker satisfaction. Job enlargement: giving a worker a large portion of the total task (horizontal loading) Job enrichment: increasing responsibility for planning and coordination tasks, teams. Responsibility for work is shared among members, self-discussed. Groups empowered to make certain changes in their work processes. Analyzing how a job is done and trying to make it more efficient: identify, discuss, study, analyze, propose new method. Worker machine charts: motion study the systematic study of the human motions used to perform and operation, working conditions, work measurement. Time based system: based on time an employee has worked during a pay period.
