Essays on Job Enrichment

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

Introduction

Leadership at various organizations is a great determinant of the success of any company. Leaders in various organizations achieve their goals through their employees. One of the greatest concerns for most employers is how to ensure that their employees are motivated. Motivated employees enable an organization to achieve its goals. To achieve economic success, most organizations are abandoning traditional leadership models such as job titles. Job titles have been around for a long time, and certain leaders believe that for success to be achieved, someone has to be responsible at the workplace. Recent studies have revealed that job titles ...

Implementation of the Controversial Policy “The Condensed Work Week.”

For that reason, the new Human Resource Vice President should consider how to implement the condensed work week. It is clear that all employees in the organization suffer work burnout as indicated by the reduced productivity. A discussion with the CEO is necessary as she will need his support when implementing the plan. Some sections of employees will see it as a way of cutting them off before they can understand that the policy is meant to improve their overall performance (Burke, 2010). Lisa was the Human Resource generalist before the promotion and has, therefore, interacted with the workers. ...

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Background With particular focus on Dewar’s book, A Savage Factory, this report examines how the failure in manipulating various organizational behavior principles in the right manner can lead to massive mistakes and the ultimate collapse of the organization. It is the memoir of Robert J. Dewar who has worked at Ford Motor Company, one of the biggest automotive companies in the world. This report aims to summarize the history of workers and managers and their attitude towards work. The workers and managers discussed were mainly responsible for controlling the quality of the products and sale ...

How can managers enrich or enlarge employees’ jobs?

The enhancement of a worker’s motivation by telling him or her to perform more duties might sound counter-intuitive. But job enlargement and enrichment can result in greater job productivity and satisfaction as long as the manager handles it skillfully. The concept of enrichment and enlargement particularly takes place in small enterprises where employees are not grouped into specific departments; hence, specialization cannot limit them to pitch in different tasks. The leader must review the current components and core functions before focusing on work enrichment and enlargement. He or she should also ask for the perspectives of the employees ...

Introduction

If a job is well-designed, it may foster employee well-being and engagement, and therefore contribute to work performance that leads to customer satisfaction (Bakker et al., 190). Job design provides a description of the way “jobs, tasks, and roles are structured, enacted, and modified and what the impact of these structures, enactments, modifications, are on the individual, group, and organizational outcomes” (Grant et al., 318). For a period spanning over half a century, job design theories have played a significant role in guiding scholars and practitioners to offer descriptions, explanations, and effect changes in the work experiences and behaviors ...

Most people in out societies discriminate other professions while associating others with prestige. One of them that people look down upon is teaching profession. However, teaching is a profession that has contributed much in educating people who later join other professions and therefore, it should earn a lot of respect and teachers should feel esteemed (Professional attitudes. 2009). The lag in professionalism should be a basis for management’s intervention and continue on the path of improvement in competency, image, conduct, performance, and industry engagement. There are some organizations that have proposed for the improvement in the professional development ...