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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"job design"”.
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From Wallets to Wages: Consumer Income, Job Design, and Pay Disparities
… that serve high-income consumers specialize jobs into higher-paying and higher-skilled positions focused on quality, while those that serve lower-income consumers emphasize cost minimization by requiring workers to perform a wider range of general tasks. Matching consumer foot traffic data …
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Knowledge management, job design, and organizational climate’s influence on employees’ perception of quality
… is to determine if knowledge management, job design, and organizational climate can influence an employee’s perception of quality. This study uses a Likert scaled survey instrument to collect data utilizing a modified questionnaire as designed and validated by Hackman & Oldham (JDS), Maier …
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Virtually Alone: Exploring the Effects of Technology and Job Design on Loneliness in Remote Work Arrangements
… Drawing on Sociotechnical Systems Theory, social job design characteristics and communication mediums were examined as moderators to workplace loneliness. To complement this, data was also collected on which information communication technology (ICT) employees use most often. A total of 305 …
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Towards a new approach to job design research within modern manufacturing : the investigation of employee work orientations.
… a new and much needed dimension to contemporary job design research. This focus arises from developments in manufacturing where, to attain a competitive advantage, organisations are increasingly introducing various new initiatives. Successful implementation of these initiatives, collectively …
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A comparative analysis of job design characteristics, organizational structure, and personal characteristics affecting job satisfaction of extension agents in two extension organizations in Tanzania
The present study was designed to compare two extension organizations in Tanzania: Commodity extension and General extension. Comparisons were made at three levels. First, to determine whether the two organizations differ in levels of job satisfaction; second, to determine whether the two …
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Job crafting and organizational citizenship behavior: believing in your creative ability to better your job and organization
… manager implements changes in each employee’s job design and roles within the organization. Recent job design has focused on letting the employee develop some of the task they do. This certain type of job redesign is called job crafting. Job crafting is a theoretical concept where an employee …
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Job satisfaction in critical care nurses
This descriptive study was designed to explore job satisfaction among critical care nurses using an established conceptual framework of job satisfaction entitled the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980). The standardized measures of general job satisfaction and other job design …
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Worker profile: two functional assessment models
… for use in the vocational assessment and job design process. In addition to providing the rehabilitation engineer a usable assessment of the client's abilities the Worker Profile should aid in the sharing of information among the specialists on the rehabilitation team. Unlike previous …
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Predicting Job Satisfaction in a Medium Sized Texas Police Department
The works of organizational and job design researchers indicate that increased job satisfaction will increase productivity, foster cooperation, improve attendance, and generally increase the quality of work performed. This study applies these theories and techniques to analyze a medium size Texas …
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Volunteer recruitment and retention: a case study of the Vancouver Planned Parenthood Clinic
… processes, 4) organizational structure and job design, and 5) organizational environment. Multiple factors are discussed under each level of analysis. A triangulation of methods, comprised of interviews with volunteers, observational analysis, and document analysis, is used to provide a rich …
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Small Business Crews As High Performance Work Teams: The Role Of Vertical And Horizontal Familiarity
… between members) on fluid team financial job performance. Utilizing role theory (Foa & Foa, 1974), leader-member exchange (Graen & Scandura, 1984) and team-member exchange (Seers, 1989) theories, within Grant's (2007) relational job design model, a conceptual model is developed and then …
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The perceived dimensions of jobs: a multidimensional scaling approach
… that underlie individuals' perceptions of jobs. Three hundred and five subjects rated the similarity of pairs of job titles, completed the Role Construct Repertory Test (REP), and later rated videotaped vignettes in a performance appraisal simulation. Multidimensional scaling extracted the …
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COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE INTERACTION WITH THE PUBLIC: EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE TYPOLOGY, CONSEQUENCES, PROCESSES, AND CONTINGENCIES
… it as solely harmful, while research on job design considers its merits. I propose that each area of the literature adopts a narrow perspective that creates these different views. This dissertation constructs and validates a framework based on valence (negative and positive) and content …
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An Examination of Job Competencies and Motivation of High School Assistant Principals in Ohio Public Schools
… was to explore the relationship between the job competencies and motivation of high school assistant principals in Ohio public schools. The aim of the study was to test the relationship between those variables and, using the findings, to make practical recommendations for the job design of …
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The main effects of five job characteristics on performance and satisfaction: a laboratory investigation
… of the literature on Hackman and Oldham's (1975) job characteristics model of job design found that laboratory research of the five job characteristics was wanting. An experimental study was conducted in which each of the five job characteristics was independently manipulated. Subjects were 120 …
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Muscle Fatigue during Isometric and Dynamic Efforts in Shoulder Abduction and Torso Extension: Age Effects and Alternative Electromyographic Measures
… factors should be considered simultaneously in job design. The present investigation also sought to develop alternative electromyography (EMG)-based fatigue parameters for low-level isometric and dynamic contractions, two areas in which improvements are needed in the sensitivity and reliability …
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Changing corporate strategies in a period of crisis: high technology multinational corporations in Scotland
… computer and semiconductor multinationals, was designed to integrate and explore the usefulness of theories on industrial structure and labour markets. The product life cycle model cannot solve the problems of diversified and increasingly competitive global markets and their ever more …
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Essays in Applied Labor and Health Economics
… context. It focuses on two main dimensions of job quality: physical security and workers’ perceptions of the meaning of work. The first essay, Silent Alarms: Workplace Injuries Under-Reporting in Italy, investigates the phenomenon of workplace injuries under-reporting using administrative …
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The Transition Process in Office Automation and Its Impact on Clerical Workers: A Case Study
… process, and the impact of automation on their jobs. The data were analyzed by the following categories: (a) factors affecting the transition process, (b) factors impacting on efficient use of computer-assisted equipment, (c) job changes resulting from office automation, and (d) factors …
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Internship design and its impact on intrinsic motivation and student career choice.
… analyses the internship through an evaluation of job design by applying both Hackman and Oldham’s (1975a) Job Characteristics Model (JCM) and developing a proposed intern’s version of that model. The outcomes demonstrate that dimensions of the work undertaken do contribute significantly to an …
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