MGT 3200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ken Blanchard, Job Design, Job Performance
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The extent to which your job allows you to perform a wide range of tasks which requires a wide variety of skills. Jobs high in skill variety are more challenging and more interesting, but require more training. Assembly line worker has low skill variety. The extent to which a job gives you a whole piece of work to do. You do it from beginning to end and you can clearly identify the results of your efforts. Assembly line worker has low task identity. The extent to which your job and its performance exerts a considerable impact on other people. How much your job matters to other people. Assembly line worker has low task significance. The extent to which your job allows you to decide what you"re going to do, how to do it, and what it"s going to look like when it"s finished. The extent to which your job gives you feedback on your performance.
