The Job Characteristics Model

believes group members are not as ready as they should be. Here leadership style focuses on helping these team members develop confidence and trust in their own abilities.

For example, when discussing Marketing 1 during our team meeting on September 18th, Katie noticed that Siobhan was unsure of her research ability and the quality of her analysis. However, Katie saw that Siobhan was willing and able because the research that Siobhan had gathered was very comprehensive, and her explanations of the gathered data were very insightful. Katie pointed out that Siobhan had done a great job analyzing an article about demographic market trends, and that she could use a similar approach to analyzing the other articles.

Over time, Siobhan developed

A person will be more motivated to work hard on a task if the task is significant, requires a variety of skills, is challenging, allows for feedback, and allows for autonomy, among other factors. This theory is evident in our team’s experience. Below is a discussion of the three most important factors in our group.

Responsibility for Outcomes through Autonomy

When speaking about the JCM, or Job Characteristics Model, “autonomy” refers to how much freedom a person has to make decisions related to a task. An autonomous person determines how and when to do the task. According to this model a person with high autonomy will be motivated to put better quality work into their task.

This is seen in our group through Sua’s dedication to the management assignments. As Management Papers Manager, Sua is responsible for the completion of the management papers. She makes the schedule for the assignments and decides how we will complete them. While she has the rest of the group to help her, it is ultimately up to Sua to ensure that the assignments are well written and completed on time. Since she knows that the quality of work will reflect on her and that she is responsible for the outcome, Sua is more motivated to work on the

If a certain task is particularly significant, a person will be more motivated to perform well on this task.

Our team is experiencing increased motivation through task significance as evidenced by the team’s work ethic on the Final Marketing Plan. This paper is more significant than any of our other assignments because it is worth the most amount of points and accounts for 20% of our final grade. Because of the high significance, we started to work on the assignment over a month before it is due, whereas we usually start to work on a typical assignment about three weeks before it is due. We have also been setting more incremental deadlines for this assignment. For example, Caitlin set the deadline of October 25th for sections 2,3,4, and 6. This allowed us to spend more time improving these sections, and will allow us to focus on the other sections moving