Five Characteristic Dimensions Of A Job Characteristic Model

MPOB RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

DIVYA SRIVASTAVA

ROLL NO. 02415903915

MBA-SEC A (MORNING SHIFT)

Motivation is driven by:-

1) Personal drives

2) Managerial actions

3) Job or work itself

Hackman and Oldham Job characteristic model

The job characteristics model, designed by Hackman and Oldham, is based on the idea that the task itself is key to employee motivation. Specifically, a boring and monotonous job stifles motivation to perform well, whereas a challenging job enhances motivation. Variety, autonomy and decision authority are three ways of adding challenge to a job. Job enrichment and job rotation are the two ways of adding variety and challenge.  Five characteristic dimensions required for job characteristic model

 Skill

This job has high level of motivation.

Autonomy : the degree to which a job provides substantial freedom and desecration to individual in scheduling the work and in determining the procedure to be used to in carrying it work. It means if one has the ability to give input and know how their job is done.

Eg. an instructor who is required to follow a predetermined textbook, covering a given list of topics using a specified list of classroom activities, has low autonomy. On the other hand, an instructor who is free to choose the textbook, design the course content, and use any relevant materials when delivering lectures has higher levels of autonomy. Autonomy increases motivation at work, but it also has other benefits. Giving employees autonomy at work is a key to individual as well as company success, because autonomous employees are free to choose how to do their jobs and therefore can be more effective.

The manner and process of how the job is done is up to the employee then job has great degree of

• Task Identity

Being able to identify with the work at hand as more whole and complete, and hence enabling more pride to be taken in the outcome of that work (e.g. if you just add one nut to one bolt in the same spot every time a washing machine goes past it is much less motivating than being the person responsible for the drum attachment and associated work area (even as part of a group).

• Task Significance

Being able to identify the task as contributing to something wider, to society or a group over and beyond the self. For example, the theory suggests that I will be more motivated if I am contributing to the whole firm’s bonus this year, looking after someone or making something that will benefit someone else. Conversely I will be less motivated if I am only making a faceless owner wealthier, or am making some pointless item (e.g. corporate give-away gifts).

 Responsibility

Responsibility is derived from autonomy, as in the job provides substantial freedom, independence and discretion to the individual in scheduling the work and in determining the procedures to be used in carrying it out)

 Knowledge of