MULTITASKING : A GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME?

MOTIVATION: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATION

PRESENTED BY :

SULAGNA THAKUR (14202237)

PRITISH KUMAR SINHA (14202239)

PINAKI RANJAN BHAKAT (14202238)

KUMAR NISHIKANT (14202240)

CONTENTS Introduction

Multitasking Defined

Motivating by Job Design

JCM model

MPS

Job Redesign

Alternative Work Arrangements

Case Facts

Youth Media Multitasking

Case Findings

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION : MULTITASKING DEFINED

The simultaneous performance of two or more tasks by a computer’s multiple processors.

Human have one processor (The Brain). We are not wired to perform

complex task simultaneously.

Impacts of multitasking

Positive Impacts

Negative Impacts

MOTIVATING BY JOB DESIGN

The way elements in a job are organized.

Traditional Job design

Taylor’s Scientific Management

Replacement of Rule of Thumb

Scientific Selection and Training

Cooperation of Management and Labour

Equal Division

JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL

Developed by J. Richard Hackman & Greg Oldham

Skill Variety

Task Identity

Task Significance

Autonomy

Feedback

JCM

Core Job Dimensions

Critical Psychological

States

Personal and Work

Outcomes

Experienced

meaningfulness

of the work

Experienced

responsibility

for outcomes

of the work

Knowledge of

actual results of

the work activities

High Internal

work motivation

High quality

work performance

High satisfaction

with the work

Low absenteeism

and turnover

Employee Growth-

Need Strength

Skill Variety

Task Identity

Task

significance

Autonomy

Feedback

6

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MOTIVATION POTENTIAL SCORE

A predictive index that suggests the motivating potential in a job.

TECHNIQUES OF JOB REDESIGN

Job Simplification

Job simplification means variety & difficulty of tasks performed by a

single person are reduced.

Job Enrichment

More advanced technology tends to cause Job Enrichment meaning that the job provides

greater responsibility, recognition and opportunities for growth and development.

Job Rotation

Job rotation means moving employees from job to job to give them greater variety of task so that

to help preventing boredom.

ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS

FlextimeEmployees work during a common core time period each day but have

discretion in forming their total workday from a flexible set of hours

outside the core.

Example of Flextime Time Schedule

Job Sharing

The practice of having two or more people split a 40-hour-a-

week job.

Approx. 19% of large organizations now offer Job

sharing.

Telecommuting

Employees do their work at home on a computer that is linked to their

office.

Categories of Telecommuting Jobs

•Routine information-handling tasks.

•Mobile activities.

•Professional and other knowledge-related tasks.

Especially important for a diverse workforce of dual-earner couples, single parents, and employees

caring for a sick or aging relative.

CASE FACTS

Multitasking is the characteristics of Millennial generation.

About 81% of the young people report “Media Multitasking”

Multitasking illustrates that motivation is not just effort but also the way effort is directed.

Multitasking makes people more efficient, which is a positive impact.

According to David Meyer, multitasking results in adverse outcomes beyond inefficiency.

Absorbs material more superficially

Damage productivity and social relationship.

YOUTH MEDIA MULTITASKING

CASE FINDINGS EFFECTS OF MULTITASKING WHEN TASK ARE COMPLEX

Risky mixture of brain problems

Severe Stress

Rage in adults to learning problems

Autism-like behavior in children.

Less Efficient

CONCLUSION

“To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither” – Publilius Syrus

Multitasking is a big illusion.

They think they are motivated and productive even when they are not.

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