PSYC 2070 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
17 Jan 2019
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Job enlargement: problems, basically alleviates the boredom a little bit, but people. Job enrichment: are still bored: involves giving workers more tasks to perform, sometimes referred to as horizontal job loading , could be referred to as vertical job loading over how to perform them responsibility for the tasks being completed. Knowledge"s of the actual results of the work activities. If any of these is 0, then none of them are considered to be motivating. Jobs that are high on skill variety, task significance, and task identity are perceived as more meaningful. Jobs that are high on autonomy provide for a greater responsibility for work outcomes. Moderator: growth need strength, the extent to which people desire to achieve higher order need satisfaction, by doing work that improves them, and helps them achieve self actualization. Research support: research is generally supportive of the basic prediction of the model, workers respond more favorably to jobs that are higher in motivating potential.
