Contemporary Theories Of Motivation (cont. Designing Motivating Jobs Job Design-the way tasks are combined to form complete jobs historically,concentrated on making jobs more specialized -Job Enlargement-horizontal expansion of job job scope-the number of different tasks required in a job and the frequency with which these tasks are repeated provides few challenges,little meaning to workers activities only addresses the lack of variety in specialized jobs ©Prentice Hall,2002 16-21Designing Motivating Jobs – Job Design - the way tasks are combined to form complete jobs • historically, concentrated on making jobs more specialized – Job Enlargement - horizontal expansion of job • job scope - the number of different tasks required in a job and the frequency with which these tasks are repeated • provides few challenges, little meaning to workers’ activities • only addresses the lack of variety in specialized jobs Contemporary Theories Of Motivation (cont.) © Prentice Hall, 2002 16-21