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Rynders, Steve – Personnel Administrator, 1980
The author argues for job enrichment as the best method of reducing absenteeism and outlines the approach his company takes toward creating a job enrichment program. (IRT)
Descriptors: Attendance, Employees, Job Enrichment
Herzberg, Frederick I. – Personnel Administrator, 1979
Examines three management philosophies and five methods of job enrichment. Concludes that "orthodox job enrichment" is the most promising of all the organizational improvement strategies. A starting point in enriching a job is to find past changes made in the name of efficiency that should be eliminated. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Employees, Job Enrichment, Motivation, Work Attitudes
Schaeffer, Robert F. – Personnel Administrator, 1977
Describes a program that reduced turnover and overtime. (IRT)
Descriptors: Industry, Job Enrichment, Social Adjustment, Task Performance
Hughes, Charles L. – Personnel Administrator, 1976
The existential approach toward flexibility and accommodation of employee value systems is to reach what perhaps may be the most important objective--to permit all people, whoever they may be and whatever job they may hold, to work and live with dignity and respect. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Employer Employee Relationship, Job Enrichment, Personnel Management
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