Touchstone 3: Redesign a Job
OVERVIEW: You will demonstrate an understanding of job design and how it interacts with organizational structure and employee motivation.
Your organization has reused this job description for several years. The job has high turnover and usually does not attract a competitive pool of candidates despite a competitive wage for a job that requires no experience.
You will redesign the job, applying the principles of job design to attract more applicants. Because you are designing a job, not just writing a job description, your description will also show elements of employee engagement.
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A. ASSIGNMENT
STEP 1: Redesign the job.
Redesign the job description, and the job itself, by revising the text below. You will make it more appealing to candidates and more enjoyable for the person who ends up filling the job by applying the principles from the tutorials listed below:
- Accessibility of Facilities- (https://app.sophia.org/tutorials/accessibility-of-facilities)
- The Evolution of Job Design- (https://app.sophia.org/tutorials/the-evolution-of-job-design)
- Effective Job Design- (https//app.sophia.org/tutorials/effective-job-design)
- Strategies for Measuring Performance- (https//app.sophia.org/tutorials/strategies-for-measuring-performance
Because you are redesigning the job, not just writing the description, you can make decisions about what the job will be like in terms of job characteristics as described in the tutorial on
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