Fifth Stop - Impact of Job Design on Employee Performance

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What is Job Design?
Job Design is the process of various elements to form a job, both organizational and individual worker requirements. It typically refers to the way that all tasks or position is organized. (Anon., 2005)

Benefits of Job Design

  • Employee Input: The best job design enables good job feedback. Employees have the freedom to select their own work tasks.
  • Employee Training: Training is an important part of job design, so employees are well known about their job demands and when and how it is to be done.
  • Work / Rest Schedules: Job design suggest good work and rest schedule by clearly defining the number of hours an individual employee must spend in his or her job.
Occupation structured is endless and consistently developing a procedure that is helping employees modify with changes in the work environment. The last objective is diminishing disappointment and worker commitment to the working environment and upgrading inspiration. (Anon., n.d.)

Employee Performance
In any organization, the success of the business depends on employees’ performance. The data or information that manager receives on how well employees are performing their jobs can be of three different types. (Anon., n.d.)
  • Trait-based information: the subjective character of the employee such as attitude, creativity or initiative.
  • Behavior-based information: job performance focus on what is included in the job itself.
  • Result based information: Results are outcomes produced by the employee and the organization. Result based information consider employee accomplishment. (Anon., 2013)
Some of the core job features are Skill Variety, Task Identity, Autonomy, and Feedback. The employees are different in their work. Some of the employees believe that their knowledge, skills, and abilities match the work requirements. Employees need freedom and authority in their job. Employees are happy with their job, but they want his / her work to be important in the organization. Mostly, employees are satisfied with their job but not satisfied with their income. Most employees are motivated when they receive feedback. Most employees interact with others and solve problems together. (Anon., 2013)

Therefore, job design is significantly and positively related to employee performance.

What do you think of yourself as an employee? Do your organization has a good job design where you can improve your performance? 

References

Anon., 2005. Academia. [Online]
Available at: https://www.academia.edu/4159258/New_model_of_job_design_motivating_employees_performance
[Accessed 28 May 2019].

Anon., 2013. Uni Assignment Center. [Online]
Available at: https://www.uniassignment.com/essay-samples/business/impact-of-job-design-on-employee-performance-business-essay.php
[Accessed 28 May 2019].

Anon., n.d. allsubjects4you. [Online]
Available at: http://www.allsubjects4you.com/Management-job-design.htm
[Accessed 28 May 2019].

Anon., n.d. Management Study Guide. [Online]
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Comments

  1. Razi JalaldeenJune 2, 2019 at 9:48 PM

    Please check some academic articles to find out the way of citation

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    1. Apsara WickramarathneJune 2, 2019 at 11:25 PM

      Thank you for the feedback Dr.Razi.. and i did the necessary changes in citations. i used https://www.mybib.com for doing the citations and seems like it did it wrong way.

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  2. Shardha_LondonMet_MBAJune 8, 2019 at 9:00 AM

    Nice overview of the job design, its importance and its influence on employee performance. I believe that input from both employee and the employer is valuable in job design. Jobs have to designed in a way that it is beneficial to both employer and employee.

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  3. Sanjeewani AdikariJune 8, 2019 at 10:26 AM

    Like the way you have explained how job design is significantly and positively related to employee performance. The article well explains the need for properly creating job design so that the organization can benefit as a whole

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