PROF SUB 3 FINALS

this system attempted to promote efficiency in industrial operations by allowing workers to specialize in particular tasks and gain high levels of competence in their work

• Job Specialization

• Job Enlargement

• Job Rotation

• Job Enrichment

provides some variety by increasing the number of tasks, activities, or jobs to help alleviate the boredom of highly specialized work

• Job Specialization

• Job Enlargement

• Job Rotation

• Job Enrichment

workers rotate across different specialized positions within the organization

• Job Specialization

• Job Enlargement

• Job Rotation

• Job Enrichment

 involves going beyond merely adding tasks to employees’ jobs, instead it involves increasing the amount of responsibility employees have

• Job Specialization

• Job Enlargement

• Job Rotation

• Job Enrichment

Employers must consider a number of important universal considerations in designing work systems to ensure that workers are motivated, productive, and happy.

• True

• False

The design of work systems also needs to consider what workers need and want in order to carry out their job responsibilities. Which of the following is not included?

• The changing demographics and lifestyles of the labor market.

• Organizations also need to be more aware of employee needs for work/life balance.

• • Determining what employees want is ensuring that employees have some form of representation, or voice.

• • Work safety

• None of the above

•  where individual employees work independently of each other in performing their tasks but utilize some coordination of their activities

• Pooled

• Sequential

• Reciprocal

• refers to work that flows from one individual to another where one individual depends on the timely completion of quality work from another coworker

• Pooled

• Sequential

• Reciprocal

• occurs when the workflow is not linear (as in sequential interdependence) but random

• Pooled

• Sequential

• Reciprocal

• It represents one of the most radical yet common changes taking place in organizations from an HR perspective.

• What workers need

• Redesign of work system

• What workers do

• Job interface with other jobs