The document discusses job design and its relationship to employee motivation and quality of work. It presents a conceptual model of job design that considers individual differences, job context, analysis, and performance outcomes. The model correlates elements like job content, requirements, and context to job satisfaction and performance. Additionally, the document evaluates how employee perceptions of their jobs impacts performance. It assesses approaches to job design like job enlargement, rotation, and enrichment, and their potential benefits and issues. Finally, the document introduces the job characteristics model of relating job design elements to psychological states and outcomes, and discusses how job design integrates with total quality management approaches.