Organizational Management

Introduction

Module Six Critical Thinking Assignment.

This paper will address the five questions presented in the module six critical thinking assignment.

This module’s reading and lecture material has described job designs in various service and manufacturing organizations. In which type of organization is job enrichment likely to be more effective as a strategy for increasing motivation and performance?

“The purpose of job enrichment is to improve the quality of an employee's job and therefore motivate the employee to accomplish more” (Allison, McClintic, & Cengage, 2001) and job enrichment will have a positive effect on both service and manufacturing organizations that lack “psychological growth especially responsibility, job challenge and achievement” (Gibson, J.L, Ivancevich, J.M, Donnelly, J.H., Konopaske, R., 2009).

In a bureaucratic manufacturing organization that has many jobs with limited range and depth the organization is likely to have higher turnover, sick days, little loyalty, low dedication, low productivity all symptoms of a lack of motivation. One type of job enrichment that would be beneficial to this type of manufacturing organization is job redesign, “match employees with a job they like and are best qualified to perform” (Allison, et al., 2001) by expanding the range and depth of the job. The expanded range will include additional tasks and allow the employees to develop groups to solve organizational issues. The expanded depth will provide the employees with greater discretion on job activities and outcomes the organization. The job redesign of the manufacturing organization has enriched the employees and will increase motivation and performance.

A highly departmentalized service organization would b...

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