anthropocentric - correct answer ✔✔Placing human considerations at the center of job design decisions
cross-training - correct answer ✔✔workers are trained in different specialized tasks or activities
engagement - correct answer ✔✔A term commonly used in the contemporary workplace to summarize
motivation levels
Ergonomics - correct answer ✔✔The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design
devices, machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
Flextime - correct answer ✔✔Enables employees to set their own daily work schedules
Job - correct answer ✔✔Set of specified work and task activities that engage an individual in an
organization.
Job Diagnostic Survey - correct answer ✔✔Measures the elements in the Job characteristics model.
Technocentric - correct answer ✔✔Placing technology and engineer at the center of job design decisions
Technostress - correct answer ✔✔the stress caused by new and advancing technologies in the workplace
virtual office - correct answer ✔✔Mobile platform of computer, telecommunication, and information
technology services, leads to lack of social connection, also causes technostress.
, work - correct answer ✔✔Mental or physical activity that has productive results.
work simplification - correct answer ✔✔Standardization and the narrow, explicit specification of task
activities for works
True or False:
Job is not the same as work - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False:
Approaches in job design offer benefits to the organization and the employees. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False:
Several alternative approaches to Job design have emerged - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False:
Some contemporary issues in the designs of work are telecommuting, alternative work patterns, and skill
development - correct answer ✔✔True
Adhocracy - correct answer ✔✔a selectively decentralized form of organization that emphasizes the
support staff and mutual adjustment among people
Business Model Innovation - correct answer ✔✔result in ways for firms to make money
Centralization - correct answer ✔✔Degree to which decisions are made at the top of the organization
complexity - correct answer ✔✔Degree to which many different types of activities occur in the
organization
contextual variables - correct answer ✔✔A set of four characteristics that influence the success of an
organization's design: size, technology, environment, and strategy and goals.
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