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Essay / Organizational Approaches to Job Design - 1564
The idea of job design is nothing new. It has horizontal roots, originating from the era of the unskilled where Babbage wrote about simulated, sequential, rationalized jobs. Perhaps the best known Intellect on Job program is Frederick President, who wrote The Principles of Technology Orientation. He proposed analyzing and dividing jobs into simplified tasks through displacement studies. The employment system defines and delineates the tasks, duties and responsibilities of a job. This data collection becomes the basis for developing corresponding job descriptions. With this help, the executive can assess the skills and knowledge required to meet the needs of the organization. Although Taylor was the leading voice championing the ideas of productivity as resulting from the smallest extent and greatest amount of motion lost during function or work, recent research has shown that fertility of almost every job is also closely linked to motivation and personality. The determination of the organization of work aims to increase the efficiency and satisfaction of women and to influence motivation by improving the nature of success in the function itself. Evaluating Organizational Approaches to Job Design Job redesign within organizations may be perhaps the most important aspect of an organization. An engineer named Taylor and others helped develop the idea of communicating a task as it relates to the application of work. Taylor is considering the idea of regularizing work tasks so that the organization can function at its peak. Taylor's vision developed around four basic principles. He believed that work should be developed in such a way as to ensure that the individual...... middle of paper ...... motivation, etc. Works Cited Hackman, J.R. (1980). Work redesign and motivation. Professional Psychology, 11(3), 445-455.Mukherjee, A. and Vasconcelos, L. (2011). Optimal design of work in presence. Journal of Economics, 42(1), 44-69. Myers, FE and Stewart, RJ (2001). A Study of Time and Motion: For Lean Manufacturing (3 ed.). NJ: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Niebel, B.W. and Frevalds, A. (1998). Methods, standards and work design. New York: WCB/McGraw-Hill. Schelvis, MC, Oude Hengel, KM, Wiezer, NM, Blatter, BM, Genabeek, AV, Bohlmeijer, ET and Van der Beek, AJ (2013). Design of the Bottom-up Innovation project - a participatory, primary preventive and organizational intervention on work-related stress and well-being for Dutch vocational education workers. Schelvis et al. BMC Public Health, 13(76), 1471-2458.