PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Merit Pay, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

Job design structure, content, and configuration of a person"s work tasks and roles: goal is to identify the characteristics that make some tasks more motivating than others and to capture these characteristics in the design of jobs. Job designed according to the principles are not intrinsically motivating motivational strategies consisted of close supervision and piece-rate pay. Job simplification helped workers achieve a reasonable standard of living. Depth degree of discretion or control the. Job scope breadth and depth of a job performed on the job worker has over how theses tasks are performed. Tradition views of job design were attempts to construct low scope jobs which workers specialize in single tasks. Motivational theory suggests that high scope jobs provide more intrinsic motivation than low scope jobs. Stretch assignments provide employees challenging opportunities to broaden skills by working on a variety of tasks with new responsibility.