Factors Affecting JOB DESIGN

SUBMITTED BY-SHIVAM SINHAROLL NO. 38MBA (1st Year)

SUBMITTED TO:DR. ANURAG SINGH

Session Objective:

Understand and Define Job Design

Identify and explain the Factors Affecting Job Design

Identify and Understand the Approaches to Job Design

Job Design :

Job design is a logical sequence to job analysis.

Specifying the contents of a job

Specifying Work Method used in its performance

Relation with other jobs of the

organistion

MATHIS AND JACKSON :

• Tasks• Functions• Relationships

Work Content

• Extrinsic• IntrinsicRewards

• Skills• Knowledge• Abilities

Qualifications Required

Needs Of Employee and Organisation

Factors Affecting Job Design :

ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS

ORGANISATIONALFACTORS

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS

1. Task Features 1. Social and Cultural Expectations

1. Autonomy

2. Work Flow 2. Employee Ability and Availability

2. Use of Abilities

3. Ergonomics 3. Feedback

4. Work Practices 4. Variety

ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS :Task Features

Work Flow

Ergonomics

Work Practices

1. Planning

2. Executing

3. Controlling

A job design involves a number of tasks performed by a group of workers. Further, each task consists of these internal features.

The very nature of a product influences the sequences of jobs, i.e., work flow.

The tasks involved in a job need to be sequenced and balanced.

Designing of Jobs in such a way to match job requirements with worker’s physical abilities to perform a job effectively.

Practice means a set way of doing work based on tradition or collective wishes of workers.

While designing jobs, these work practices need to be taken into consideration.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS :Social & Cultural Expectations

Employee Ability & Availability

Increase in literacy, education, knowledge, awareness, etc. have raised the expectations from the jobs.

It is due to this reason that the job design now is characterised by the features like work hours, rest breaks, vacations, religious beliefs, etc.

Disregarding these social expectations can create dissatisfaction, low motivation and low quality of working life”.

Employee skills, abilities and time of availability play a crucial role while designing of the jobs.

Designing a job that is more demanding and above their skill set will lead to decreased productivity and employee satisfaction.

BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS:

Autonomy Use of Abilities Feedback Variety

Autonomy means freedom to control one’s actions/responses to the environment.

Employees should work in an open environment rather than one that contains fear.

It promotes creativity, independence and leads to increased efficiency.

Workers perform jobs effectively that offer them opportunity to make use of their abilities.

Jobs should be designed in a manner such that an employee is able to make full use of his abilities and perform the job effectively.

Job design should be determined in such a way that workers receive meaningful feedback about what they did.

Feedback helps workers improve their performance.

Repetitive jobs often make work monotonous which leads to boredom.

A job should carry sufficient diversity and variety so that it remains as interesting with every passing day.