MSCI211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attribution Bias, Job Enrichment, Social Forces
21 Oct 2016
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Satisfiers (motivators): feelings related to content of the job, eg feeling of contributing to a successful project. Disatisfiers (hygiene) related to the context of the job eg. your salary. Problems: independence of the 2 factors is not always stable/questionable: Methodology only samples peaks: day may be a representative of a (cid:498)normal(cid:499) work day. Classic problem of fragmented jobs and solutions: job rotation (change) eg. change you from 1 repetitive task to another. Job enlargement getting more repetitive jobs, instead of doing one job, you do 3. Job enrichment: (change in position and in depth) eg. do all the tasks, but also decide when to do them to seem like you have some position of authority. Meaningfulness=job characteristic (skill variety +task identity +significance) Perceived responsibility=job characteristic of autonomy feedback study in sweden changing the assembly line way, by reorganizing it into smaller groups so that everyone has a high level of responsibility.
