Job design involves specifying the contents, methods, and relationships of jobs to satisfy technological, organizational, and personal requirements. Its principles focus on how job characteristics like skill variety and autonomy impact employee attitudes and behavior. The goal of job design is to improve job satisfaction, productivity, quality, and reduce issues like absenteeism and grievances.

1. Job design
Individual OD interventions

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Manu Melwin Joy
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3. Job design
• Job design (also referred to
as work design or task
design) is the specification
of contents, methods and
relationship of jobs in order
to satisfy technological and
organizational
requirements as well as the
social and personal
requirements of the job
holder.

4. Job design
• Its principles are geared
towards how the nature
of a person's job affects
their attitudes and
behavior at work,
particularly relating to
characteristics such as
skill variety and
autonomy.

5. Job design
• The aim of a job design is
to improve job
satisfaction, to improve
through-put, to improve
quality and to reduce
employee problems (e.g.,
grievances, absenteeism).