Module 1: Managing Your Team - Job Design and Staff Pay

Job Design

Elements to Job Design
Introduction

Job design is critical to the success of any organization. For our purposes job design is defined as the allocation of specific work tasks to individuals and groups. Allocating jobs and tasks means specifying the contents, method and relationships of jobs to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the personal needs of jobholders.

Tasks

A task can be best defined as a piece of assigned work expected to be done within a certain time. It is important to strictly and thoroughly identify tasks that need completion.

Motivation

In addition individuals need to be compelled, excited, and passionate to do their work. Hence, it is essential to design jobs that motivate employees. Motivation describes forces within the individual that account for the level, direction, and persistence of effort expended at work.

Resources

In job design it is necessary to identify and structure jobs in a way so that the company’s resources are being efficiently used. Resource allocation occurs when organizations decide to appropriate or allocate certain resources to specific jobs, tasks or dilemmas facing the organization.

Maximize efficiency

Jobs need to be constructed so that efficiency of the worker or department is maximized. Organizations need to use the resources and creativity of their employees effectively and efficiently. Appropriate resource allocation allows large organizations to foster and develop innovation in their workforce.

Reward systems

Reward systems also play a role in job design. Reward systems include compensation, bonuses, raises, job security, benefits, and various other methods of reward for employees. An outline or description of reward packages needs to be established while constructing jobs.