Job Design
Book chapter, 2015

This article is about how jobs are structured and workers motivated. It discusses the influence of several related concepts and examines the history of job design together with approaches for increasing motivation and making jobs more satisfying

Hawthorne studies.

job enrichment

job design

job enlargement

Author

David Bennett

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, Volume 10, Operations Management, 3rd Edition


978-1-119-97251-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

Business Administration

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1002/9781118785317.weom100054

ISBN

978-1-119-97251-8

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Latest update

12/13/2018