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Assessment of a new instrument to measure job design behavior

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The importance of job satisfaction has long been discussed in the human resource field. Numerous researches brought forward the ingredients of healthy jobs such as task variety, autonomy, social support, and physical demands. Nevertheless, little attention has been put to the job design process itself. What makes managers design healthy or unhealthy is a question that has seldom been addressed; the environmental influences and antecedents that affect managers’ mindset of job design is not identified yet. In order to recognize these influences, a reliable tool that is able to capture different mindsets behind the job design process is necessary. This study aims at designing an instrument that is capable to do so. A survey with nine job design scenario’s is developed. Seven of which focused on job enlargement and enrichment and two focused on job autonomy. Each scenario is further divided into three conditions: the neutral condition, the motivational condition and the efficiency condition. Job design interventions were added to the neutral condition to manipulate the job design process. Taken together, the tool still requires improvements at the current stage but it provides future researchers a prototype of a job design measurement tool.

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