Summary: 1. Human Performance, 2. Essentials Wojd & 3. Personality And Cognitive Ability In Context

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  • Name and explain the 3 parts of job performance

    Task performance - Behaviours that contribute to the organization's technical core

    Contextual performance - Behaviours that advance the organization's goals by contributing to its social and psychological environment

    Counter-productive performance - Voluntary behvaiour that harms the well-being of the organizations, the team, or other employees
  • Job performance hinges on a broad variety of .. and .. and their ... ....

    Antecedents
    Contingencies
    Complex interplay
  • What is job design? (Robbins & Judge 2012)

    The way elements in a job are organized
    Arrangement of the specific tasks a job contains
  • What is the classic approach to job design? And what are the strengths and weaknesses?

    Scientific management
    - Focus on efficiency and mass production
    - Horizontal divisions of labour
    - Vertical separation of planning and doing   

    Weaknesses: can be boring, low motivation and no creativity
    Strengths: Enables mass production, efficient and cheaper/less skilled labour
  • What are the strenths and weaknesses of the Job Characteristics Model?

    Strengths:Core ideas have been empirically confirmed
    Takes motivation and job attitudes into account
    Integration of personality as a boundary condition

    Weaknesses:Important varibles neglected--> personality trait, contextual/counter-productive performance
    Limited empirical support for details
  • What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Demands-Control model?

    Strengths:
    Joint effect of demands and control well documented
    Shifts attention to job strain - a key problem in recent jobs

    Weaknesses:
    Limited performance focus
    Restricted range of variables included
  • What are the 3 solutions for Job (re-) design?

    Job rotation
    Job enlargement
    Job enrichment/empowerment
  • What is job enlargement? Benefits and limitations

    Horizontal task expansion
    Benefits: Greater skill variety, task identity and reduces boredom
    Limitations: Does not change the nature of the job, Two mickey mouse jobs instead of one
  • What is job enrichment? Benefits and limitations

    Vertical extension of job
    Benefits: Greater skill variety, autonomy, enhances motivation, reduces stress and absenteeism
    Limitations: Not applicable for all jobs
  • Name the three different theoretical perspectives on job design

    Scientific management
    Job characteristics model
    Demands-Control model
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