Five Core Dimensions

To enhance perception of quality of work life as a function of psychological wellbeing and job satisfaction of job incumbents, job characteristics play very significant role. It will not be unrealistic to say that the job characteristics do contribute in enhancing psychological wellbeing and job satisfaction leading to reduce the occurrences of employee’s absenteeism. Characteristics of any organization and the job are generally believed to be those characteristics which are embedded in the organizational structure as well as in the functioning of the organization but the present investigator had viewed the same with the slight changes in meaning these characteristics. The present researcher had not viewed the characteristics related to organizational

(1) Skill variety (2) Task identity (3) Task significance (4) Autonomy (5) Feedback: These five job characteristics are related to job itself and It can’t be denied that these all appear in the work environment as a function of organization policy and strategy to improve job efficiency as well as organizational effectiveness. It is very clear from the very five core dimensions that these are related to the organizational functions and directly influencing job incumbents. The meaning of these five-core dimensions are being briefly discussed below.

Skill variety: One of the core dimension of job characteristics is skill variety. It allows skill to perform different operations that often require different skills. Jobs are high in variety are seen by employees as more challenging because of the range of skills involved. These jobs also relieve monotony that develops from any repetitive activity. Variety gives employees a greater sense of competence because they can perform different kinds of work in different

It is the job characteristic that gives employees some direction and control over job related decision, and it appears to be fundamental in building a sense of responsibility in workers. Although they are willing to work within the constraints of an organization, they also insist on a degree of freedom. The practice of management by objectives is the one significant means establishing more autonomy because it provides a greater role of workers in setting their own goals and perusing plans to achieve them.

Feedback: A fifth core dimension is ‘feedback’. It refers to information that tell workers how well they are performing. It can directly come from job itself, or can be given verbally by management and other employees. The idea of feedback is much of significance to people at work, because they are investigating a substantial part of their lives in work hence, they want to know how well they are doing. The workers should receive complete job feedback- both positive and negative. If they receive only negative feedback, it may not be