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• 1 1. Human performance, 2. Essentials WOJD & 3. Personality and Cognitive Ability in context

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• Name and explain the 3 parts of job performance

  Task performance - Behaviours that contribute to the organization's technical core
  
  Contextual performance - Behaviours that advance the organization's goals by contributing to its social and psychological environment
  
  Counter-productive performance - Voluntary behvaiour that harms the well-being of the organizations, the team, or other employees

• Job performance hinges on a broad variety of .. and .. and their ... ....

  Antecedents
  Contingencies
  Complex interplay

• What is job design? (Robbins & Judge 2012)

  The way elements in a job are organized
  Arrangement of the specific tasks a job contains

• What is the classic approach to job design? And what are the strengths and weaknesses?

  Scientific management
  - Focus on efficiency and mass production
  - Horizontal divisions of labour
  - Vertical separation of planning and doing   
  
  Weaknesses: can be boring, low motivation and no creativity
  Strengths: Enables mass production, efficient and cheaper/less skilled labour

• What are the strenths and weaknesses of the Job Characteristics Model?

  Strengths:Core ideas have been empirically confirmed
  Takes motivation and job attitudes into account
  Integration of personality as a boundary condition
  
  Weaknesses:Important varibles neglected--> personality trait, contextual/counter-productive performance
  Limited empirical support for details

• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Demands-Control model?

  Strengths:
  Joint effect of demands and control well documented
  Shifts attention to job strain - a key problem in recent jobs
  
  Weaknesses:
  Limited performance focus
  Restricted range of variables included

• What are the 3 solutions for Job (re-) design?

  Job rotation
  Job enlargement
  Job enrichment/empowerment

• What is job enlargement? Benefits and limitations

  Horizontal task expansion
  Benefits: Greater skill variety, task identity and reduces boredom
  Limitations: Does not change the nature of the job, Two mickey mouse jobs instead of one

• What is job enrichment? Benefits and limitations

  Vertical extension of job
  Benefits: Greater skill variety, autonomy, enhances motivation, reduces stress and absenteeism
  Limitations: Not applicable for all jobs

• Name the three different theoretical perspectives on job design

  Scientific management
  Job characteristics model
  Demands-Control model