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Nisberg, Jay N. – Personnel Journal, 1976
Deficiencies in job performance are not always due to a lack of knowledge, but frequently are the result of not knowing proper procedures and methods to get the job done. Recognizing the difference between deficiency in knowledge and deficiency in skills is the key to improving performance without training. (Editor)
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Job Development, Job Enrichment, Performance Factors
Slocum, John W., Jr. – Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation, 1981
Briefly reviews the salient concepts in the job redesign literature and describes an exercise which permits the reader to undertake a job redesign program. Actual company data are provided that indicate the effectiveness of the company's strategy. Sixteen references are listed. (Author/LLS)
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Insurance Occupations, Job Analysis, Job Development
Kaye, Beverly L. – Personnel Journal, 1980
Steps involved in goal formulation performed by employees are examined. They include an initial goal statement, comparison of goal statement, goal statement challenge, and revision. Encourages the employee to express goals in specific terms, set up target dates, and recognize the relevance to the employee's job of these goals. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Decision Making, Employee Responsibility
Barrett, Gerald V.; Dambrot, Faye H. – 1975
The report is based on a working meeting (University of Akron, Akron, Ohio on November 13, 1974) of research contractors involved in job analyses, job design, and job derived employment criteria. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an informal exchange of research findings and designs among the participants, most of whom were engaged in…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis, Job Development, Job Enrichment
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Patten, Thomas H., Jr. – Human Resource Management, 1977
New conceptions of job enrichment fly in the face of rational job evaluation. We need to look at the connection between them, because the merits of job enrichment justify its consideration. (Author)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Job Analysis, Job Development, Job Enrichment
Pierce, Jon L. – Personnel Administrator, 1980
Reviews studies of the relationship of job design and redesign (including skill required, variety afforded, autonomy allowed, identity of the task required, significance of the task required, feedback given, and friendship opportunities offered) to employee satisfaction and performance. (JM)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility, History, Job Analysis
Hackman, J. Richard; Oldham, Greg R. – 1974
The report describes the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS), an instrument designed to measure the following classes of variables: (1) objective job characteristics, particularly the degree to which jobs are designed so that they enhance work motivation and job satisfaction; (2) personnel affective reactions of individuals to their jobs and work setting;…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis, Job Development