Human Centred Job Design
10 important questions on Human Centred Job Design
What is lost according to Jahoda's theory of deprivation?
- competence and mastery
- time structure: happy hour, holiday, retirement
- social acceptance, shared experience
- physical and mental activity
- personal identity: status, self-esteem
What are characteristics of job satisfaction?
- subjective output criterion
- influenced by individual, organisational, economic and cultural factors
- can reduce social problems, boredom, physical strain, mental stress
- economic relevance for better co-operation, reduced absenteeism
- correlation with productivity (quality)
What are the four dimensions of Blauner?
- powerlessness: lack of control over policy and process
- meaninglessness: purpose of fractionated job lost
- isolation: no social contact
- self-estrangement: depersonalised detachment
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What are the four types of group defence
- informal organisation: private arrangements to help each other out among neighbours, but undependable, internal rows and coalitions
- reactive individualism: competition for the better places, bribing, mistrust
- mutual scapegoating: no direct contact between shifts leads to scapegoating in which nothing is resolved and no one feels guilty
- self-compensatory absenteeism: bad condittions require extra work (if too few show up, everyone goes home)
What does relational integrity require/entail?
- practices build on personal relations and embodied knowledge rather than procedures
- shared experience of exposure to extreme conditions
- recounting of hero and trauma stories as part of shared identity and building up common understanding
- assesing operational risk
What is the perfect group size?
What are the psychologically important attributes of Warr?
- opportunities for personal control
- opportunities for skill use
- externally generated goals
- variety
- environment clarity: job security, consequences
- availability of money
- physical security
- supportive supervision
- opportunity for interpersonal contact
- valued social position
What is the psychological process of individual action?
- goal --> orientation, perception --> plan generation and selection --> execution & monitoring --> feedback
What are criterion of complete task?
- sequentially complete: not only execution but also preparation; goal setting and deciding on measures to be taken
- hierarchically complete: mental regulation not limited to automated processes but involves knowledge-based and intellectual control
What are the effects of incomplete tasks?
- monotony
- fatigue
- effective aversion
- stress
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