Compare And Contrast Job Design Approaches And Their Relevance To An Employees Job Performance.

Job Design PracticesNameCourseTutor’s NameDateJob Design PracticesJob design has two main methods. The first method is the mechanical orientated and the second method is motivation oriented. Mechanically oriented job design is characterised by breaking down of job roles into basic routines. Employees perform the assigned routines repetitively without applying intelligence. This method minimises training cost and range of skills required for job performance. It is predictable that this approach to job design results is boring, mechanical and repetitive jobs leading to low job motivation and related negative behaviours such as non-appearance CITATION Cam87 \l 7177 \m McS13(Campion & Thayer, 1987; McShane & Von Glinow, 2013).Motivational or job enlargement approach to job design involves efforts to counter job monotony by increasing the range and nature of task involved in a job. This method may involve rotating staff in different departments or cross training employees to perform different job roles. Motivational approach to job design improves job performance by counteracting monotony, reducing opportunities for boredom and transfer of individual skills to different job functions CITATION McS13 \l 7177 (McShane & Von Glinow, 2013). Job