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Factors Affecting Job Design

The document discusses factors that affect job design, which can be classified into three categories: organizational factors, environmental factors, and behavioral factors. Organizational factors include elements of the work nature like tasks involved in a job, ergonomics to ensure efficiency, and workflow. Environmental factors refer to both internal factors like employee skills and availability and external factors like socioeconomic expectations. Behavioral factors relate to human needs like autonomy, feedback, diversity, and using employees' skills and abilities. The document provides examples and brief explanations of some of these factors.

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Factors Affecting Job Design

The document discusses factors that affect job design, which can be classified into three categories: organizational factors, environmental factors, and behavioral factors. Organizational factors include elements of the work nature like tasks involved in a job, ergonomics to ensure efficiency, and workflow. Environmental factors refer to both internal factors like employee skills and availability and external factors like socioeconomic expectations. Behavioral factors relate to human needs like autonomy, feedback, diversity, and using employees' skills and abilities. The document provides examples and brief explanations of some of these factors.

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  • Introduction to Job Design: Provides an overview of the factors influencing job design, and introduces the presenter.
  • Factors Affecting Job Design: Identifies the three main factors affecting job design: organizational, environmental, and behavioral.

Factors Affecting

Job Design
Presented by: Naumi Duque
Factors that affect a job design can classified under
three heads.They are:

Organizational
Behavioral Factors
Factors
Environmental
Factors
Work Nature: There are various
elements of a job and job design
is required to classify various
tasks into a job or a coherent set
of jobs. The various tasks may be
planning, executing, monitoring,
controlling etc and all these are to
be taken into consideration while
designing a job
• Ergonomics: Ergonomics aims
at designing jobs in such a
way that the physical abilities
and individual traits of
employees are taken into
consideration so as to ensure
efficiency and productivity.
Workflow: Product and
service type often determines
the sequence of work flow. A
balance is required between
various product or service
processes and a job design
ensures this.
• Culture: Organizational culture
determines the way tasks are
carried out at the work places.
Practices are methods or
standards laid out for carrying out a
certain task. These practices often
affect the job design especially
when the practices are not aligned
to the interests of the unions.
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Environmental factors affect the job design to a
considerable extent. These factors include both
the internal as well as external factors. They
include factors like employee skills and abilities,
their availability, and their socio economic and
cultural prospects.
Employee availability and
abilities: Employee skills, abilities
and time of availability play a crucial
role while designing of the jobs. The
above mentioned factors of
employees who will actually perform
the job are taken into consideration.
Designing a job that is more
demanding and above their skill set
will lead to decreased productivity
and employee satisfaction.
Socio economic and cultural
expectations: Jobs are nowadays
becoming more employee centered
rather than process centered. They
are therefore designed keeping the
employees into consideration. In
addition the literacy level among the
employees is also on the rise. They
now demand jobs that are to their
liking and competency and which they
can perform the best.
BEHAVIORAL FACTORS
Behavioural factors or human factors are those that pertain to the human
need and that need to be satisfied for ensuring productivity at workplace.
They include the elements like autonomy, diversity, feedback etc. A brief
explanation of some is given below:
Autonomy: Employees should work in an open environment rather than one that
contains fear. It promotes creativity, independence and leads to increased
efficiency
• Feedback: Feedback • Diversity: Repetitive jobs • Use of Skills and
should be an integral often make work abilities: Jobs should be
part of work. Each monotonous which leads to employee rather than
employee should boredom. A job should process centered.
Though due emphasis
receive proper carry sufficient diversity and needs to be given to the
feedback about his variety so that it remains as latter but jobs should be
work performance. interesting with every designed in a manner
passing day. Job variety / such that an employee is
diversity should be given able to make full use of
due importance while his abilities and perform
designing a job. the job effectively.
THANK YOU!

Factors Affecting Job Design Presented by: Naumi Duque
Factors that affect a job design can classified under three heads. They are: Organizational Factors Environmental Factors
Work Nature: There are various elements of a job and job design is required to classify various tasks into a job or a cohe
• Ergonomics: Ergonomics aims at designing jobs in such a way that the physical abilities and individual traits of employ
Workflow: Product and service type often determines the sequence of work flow. A balance is required between various prod
• Culture: Organizational culture determines the way tasks are carried out at the work places. Practices are methods or s
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Environmental factors affect the job design to a considerable extent. These factors include both the
Employee availability and abilities: Employee skills, abilities and time of availability play a crucial role while designi
Socio economic and cultural expectations: Jobs are nowadays becoming more employee centered rather than process centered.
BEHAVIORAL FACTORS

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