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Yanson, Regina; Mann, Melissa J. – Management Teaching Review, 2020
This article provides an overview of job design and offers an experiential teaching exercise to help students develop a better comprehension of job design and redesign, as well as learn the importance and challenges of such undertakings. Understanding the core elements of job design is especially important because job design serves as the…
Descriptors: Job Development, Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Active Learning
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van Ruysseveldt, Joris; van Dijke, Marius – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
Building on theoretical frameworks like the Job Demands Control model and Action Theory we tested whether the relationship between workload and employees' experiences of opportunities for workplace learning is of an inverted u-shaped nature and whether autonomy moderates this relationship. We predicted that--at moderate levels of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Active Learning, Education Work Relationship, Job Development
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Daniels, Kevin; Boocock, Grahame; Glover, Jane; Hartley, Ruth; Holland, Julie – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2009
The demands control support model (R. A. Karasek & T. Theorell, 1990) indicates that job control and social support enable workers to engage in problem solving. In turn, problem solving is thought to influence learning and well-being (e.g., anxious affect, activated pleasant affect). Two samples (N = 78, N = 106) provided data up to 4 times per…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Models, Evaluation Methods, Learning