Job Characteristics Model for

Job Characteristics Model for – Job Design

Some people are muti-tasking and multi-talented they can do variety of work with ease and expertise, and some people aren’t, they love to do specialized work only. Some people become more productive while listening music or telling/listening jokes or entertaining stories, and some people doesn’t need anything they want to be alone and undisturbed while doing their work.

Job Design provokes an insight to understand behavioral pattern of individuals and to adjust job accordingly so that individuals could be more productive.

Hackman and Oldham developed Job Characteristics Model that has five elements:

1. Skill Variety: Number of skills needed to do variety of activities.

2. Task Identity: Identification of task, its variations and processes involved in it.

3. Task Significance: Task significance and impacts on individual’s life.

4. Autonomy: Freedom and responsibility of the task.

5. Feedback: Feedback on performance.

Above five elements in Job Characteristics Model is the basic requirement of any job. Apart from that Job Design should be merged with individuals’ interest like freedom to do anything suitable to oneself and to environment that maximize performance. If few minutes meditation , listening music, browsing net, or chatting with friends helps in improving jobs then these sort of things should merged with job with minutely planned time frame.

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