How to design jobs to enhance satisfaction and motivation
WEEK 1: HOW TO DESIGN JOBS TO ENHANCE SATISFACTION AND MOTIVATION: JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL
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Actions for Week 1: How to design jobs to enhance satisfaction and motivation: Job Characteristics Model
Each module’s Discussion Forum in this class has two topics – one for the first week and another for the second.
In the Module 1 Discussion Forum be sure to post your responses using the background material, including the reading and video on the Job Characteristics Model. Here is a shorter synopsis of that material:
Louis, D.J. (2016) Notes on the Job Characteristics Model.
In week one, consider a job you have held that you did NOT find motivating. What job characteristics were missing? Look at another student’s post and suggest some ways that a manager could redesign that job to enhance one or more job characteristics and increase the motivating properties of that job. When someone has posted to your The job that was not motivating to me was customer service via phone, I like working with people face to face. I am going to submit 2 more assignments directly to you.