Job Design, step by step
The Job Characteristics Model.
- Skill varietyDoes the job use a range of abilities?
- Task identityDoes the person complete a whole, identifiable piece of work?
- Task significanceDoes it visibly affect others?
- AutonomyFreedom over how and when the work is done.
- FeedbackDoes the work itself tell you how you are doing?
The three states
- Variety, identity and significance → meaningfulness
- Autonomy → responsibility for outcomes
- Feedback → knowledge of results
Job enlargement adds tasks at the same level; job enrichment adds autonomy and responsibility. Only the second motivates.
Questions about the Job Design poster
- What’s on the Job Design poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. The Job Characteristics Model. Skill variety — Does the job use a range of abilities?; Task identity — Does the person complete a whole, identifiable piece of work?; Task significance — Does it visibly affect others?; Autonomy — Freedom over how and when the work is done.; Feedback — Does the work itself tell you how you are doing?. Job enlargement adds tasks at the same level; job enrichment adds autonomy and responsibility. Only the second motivates.
- Who is the Job Design poster for?
- Job Design belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning people & organisations can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Job Design poster?
- Five characteristics, three psychological states, and the outcomes follow. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Job Design belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Job Design?
- Team Roles, Change Management and Managing Conflict sit alongside Job Design in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Team RolesChange ManagementManaging Conflict
- Is the Job Design poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Job Design downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Job Design poster print at?
- Job Design is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Job Design loses nothing.Printing guide
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