Transcript Organizational Behavior 9e. - Student Forum

Chapter 5
Motivating
Employee
Performance
Through Work
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Prepared by Charlie Cook
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Chapter Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter you should be able to:
• Relate motivation and employee performance.
• Discuss work design, including its evolution and
alternative approaches.
• Relate employment involvement in work and motivation.
• Identify and describe key flexible work arrangements.
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Motivation and Employee Performance
• Using Theories of Motivation
 No single theory explains motivation—each theory
covers only some factors that motivate behavior
 More than one theory or method can be used to
enhance performance in an organization
 Each theory or method must be tied to specific need
or process and translated into operational terms that
foster enhanced performance
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Work Design in Organizations
• Job Design
 How organizations define and structure jobs to have
a positive impact on motivation, performance, and job
satisfaction
• Job Specialization (Fredrick Taylor)
 Jobs should be scientifically studied, broken down
into small component tasks, and then standardized
across all workers doing those jobs
 Follows Adam Smith’s concept of the division of labor
 Jobs designed for efficiency can become boring and
monotonous, resulting in job dissatisfaction
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Early Alternatives to Job Specialization
Job Rotation
Systematically moving workers from one
job to another in an attempt to minimize
monotony and boredom
Job Enlargement
Giving workers more tasks to perform
(horizontal job loading)
Job Enrichment
(vertical job loading)
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Giving workers a greater variety of tasks
to perform and more control over how to
perform them
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Work Design in Organizations
• The Job Characteristics Theory
 Critical psychological states of workers
1. Experienced meaningfulness of the work
2. Experienced responsibility for work
outcomes
3. Knowledge of results
 Motivational properties of tasks
1. Skill variety
2. Task identity
3. Task significance
4. Autonomy
5. Feedback
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Figure 5.2
The Job Characteristics Theory
Reference: Reprinted from J. R. Hackman and G. R.
Oldham, “Motivation Through the Design of Work:
Test of a Theory,” Organizational Behavior and
Human Performance, vol. 16, pp. 250–279.
Copyright 1976, with permission of Elsevier.
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Figure 5.3
Implementing the Job Characteristics Theory
Reference: J. R. Hackman, G. R. Oldham, R. Janson, and K. Purdy, “A New Stage for Job
Enrichment.” Copyright © 1975 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted
from California Management Review, vol. 17, no. 4. By permission of The Regents.
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Job Characteristics Theory:
Research Findings
• Research generally supports the theory,
however:
 Performance seldom found to correlate with job
characteristics
 Measures used to test theory are not always valid
and reliable
 Role of individual differences is not supported
 Theory is lacking in specific guidelines for
implementation
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Employee Involvement and Motivation
• Extending job design to
include:
 Participation
• Giving employees a voice in
making decisions about their
own work
 Empowerment
• Enabling workers to set their
own work goals, make
decisions, and solve problems
within their sphere of
responsibility and authority
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Employee Involvement and Motivation
• Early Perspectives on Employee Involvement
 In the beginning:
• Employee satisfaction is a result of their
participation in decision-making
 Recently:
• Employees are valued human resources who can
contribute to organizational effectiveness
• Their participation is valued
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Employee Involvement and Motivation
• Areas of Employee Involvement
 Personal job-related decisions
 Administrative matters (e.g., work schedules)
 Product quality decisions
• Techniques and Issues in Employee
Involvement
 Empowerment through work teams (quality circles)
 Decentralization of decision-making and increased
delegation
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Requirements for Effective Empowerment
• An organization must be:
 Sincere in its efforts to spread power and autonomy
to lower levels of the organization
 Committed to maintaining participation and
empowerment
 Systematic and patient in its efforts to empower
workers
 Prepared to increase its commitment to training
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Flexible Work Arrangements
• Variable Work Schedules
 Compressed work schedule
• Employees work a full forty-hour week in fewer
than the traditional five days
 Flexible work schedules (flextime)
• Employees gain more personal control over the
hours they work each day
• Job Sharing
 Part-time employees share one full-time job
• Telecommuting
 Employees spend part of their time working off-site
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Figure 5.4
Flexible Work Schedules
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Flexible Work Arrangements (cont’d)
• Telecommuting’s Benefits to Organizations
 Reduced absenteeism and turnover
 Reduction in indirect expenses
• Telecommuting’s Downside Considerations
 Employees miss the workplace social interaction
 Employees lack self-control/discipline
 Difficulties arise in coordinating in-face meetings
 Workplace safety requirements
 Information security (cybercrime)
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Organizational Behavior in Action
• After reading the chapter:
 How would you decide to quit a “good” job to follow
your dreams?
 Isn’t job enlargement just another way that
management can get more work out of employees?
 What are the core dimensions of your professor’s
job?
 Which flexible work arrangement appeals the most to
you?
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