MHR 523 Lecture 4: Chapter 4 Lecture Notes
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9 Mar 2017
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2017-03-09: a process by which information about jobs is systematically gathered and organized. Job: a group of related activities/ duties for one or more employees. Position: the collection of tasks / responsibilities performed by one person. Job design: the process of systematically organizing work into tasks that are required to perform a specific job, at a restaurant you would want to analyze the waiters, chefs. Industrial engineering: behavioral aspects, job enlargement (giving people more responsibilities, job rotation (more duties, job enrichment (add a task, team based job (work in a team, ergonomic aspects, physical needs in workers. A note on job design: the mcjob" criticism. Job design is not only about organizing work into tasks to serve the organization, it also involves organization tasks in such a way as to motivate employees. It encourages workers to learn and rotate among jobs: more strategic approach to defining jobs, supports performance management process, collect job analysis information good test question.