A job should be designed in a way that motivates the employees. Employers can increase quality of work and make them more meaningful and satisfying to employees by adding more challenging tasks, responsibilities and varieties to them, this process is known as job enrichment. Enriching jobs with various motivators can help raising employees working morale and motivation that can result to high performance and productivity in an organization.
Now, what are the characteristics of a meaningful, satisfying and motivating job?
Hackman and Oldham proposed the five job characteristics that make a job more meaningful and satisfying. According to Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics Model the characteristic of motivating job are skilled variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback.
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1. SKILLED VARIETY
Monotony and repeatedly tasks can make the employees bored. In this case, a job must involves various activities which require variety of skills to perform to avoid boredom and increase motivation.
2. TASK IDENTITY
This is all about full involvement of employees in performing the entire identifiable work with a visible outcome. In most cases, employees are motivated to perform the job that identify with them from the beginning to the end.
3. TASK SIGNIFICANCE
How a job is significant and how it impact the life of people within and outside an organization also matters in motivating employees. Employees are highly motivated when they find that the jobs they perform are very important to their organizations and bring meaningful impacts to others.
4. AUTONOMY
This is a freedom of decision making, scheduling and completing the tasks using different methods. A motivating job must be autonomous, this means that it should give employees a freedom to input their ideas and let employees make decisions and do the job on their own ways. Usually employees do not enjoy to perform a job that doesn't promote freedom and flexibility.
5. FEEDBACK
This is all about commenting on the level of employees performance. The main aim is to inform the employees how is their performance and where or in which areas they need to improve.
Conclusion
A motivating job raises the employees motivation, satisfaction and performance but also reduces absenteeism and turnover.
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