COMM 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organizational Commitment, Expectancy Theory, Flextime

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 222
• Professor: Gordon Leonard

Document Summary

Money is one of the greatest motivator that is often underestimated by employees and manager that is actually apply in the organization to motivate. Indeed, if money can satisfy a variety of needs it has to be highly valent. The level of remuneration has to reflect performances. Despite salaries, other components that motivate are usually practiced in organizations. Job design can be one of those motivators. Job design: refers to the structure, content, and configuration of a person"s work tasks and roles. The goal of job design is to identify the characteristics that make some tasks more motivating than others and to capture these characteristics in the design of jobs. Traditionally, a job was supposed to be specialized since the industrial revolution until the 1960s. Its golden age is with taylor"s principle of scientific management: Careful standardization and regulation of work activities and rest pauses.