JOB DESIGN BY JOB CHARACTERISTIC THEORY FOR ENHANCING EMPLOYEE’S WORK ENGAGEMENT AND JOB PERFORMANCE

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Attadech Unhalekka

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Organizations have to adapt, change and develop to maintain performances in the world of business competition. One of the important interventions used in organizational development is job design. The most acknowledged concept is the Job Characteristic Theory which consists of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback. The critical psychological states and work engagement are the mediators between the relationship of job characteristics and job performances. Three main practices of job design are job rotation, job enlargement, and job enrichment. Organizations can evaluate the efficacy of job design by Motivating Potential Score from Job Diagnostic Survey. Basic psychological concepts and implementations for enhancing employees’ motivation and performances will be discussed.

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