Job Analyses and Work Design - The models that made job design - The vitamin model
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The JCM, DCSM and VM all assume that:
Mental health is affected by job characteristics that are features of the psychological work environment
There are three levels in this graph:
- (A): The absence of certain job characteristics impairs psychological well-being, whereas their presence initially has a beneficial effect on affective well-being
- (B): Beyond a certain level, vitamin intake no longer has any positive effects, a plateau has been reached
- (C): shows further increase in job characteristics may either produce a constant effect (CE) of be harmful and impair mental health (AD)
Differences VM vs JCM & DCSM:
- VM:
- incorporates negative and positive features of work
- concentrates on optimizing each job characteristic in the model and is also more comprehensive than the other 2
- JCM & DCSM:
- JCM:
- Focuses on improving work through enhancing characteristics
- DCSM:
- Indicates that adverse job characteristics can be offset by positive job features
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