Department of Information Studies

University at Albany

Job Design Exercise

Using your current job (or if you are not working at this time, your last job), reflect on what the job might be like if you were able to re-design the work to make the job more satisfying, fulfilling, productive, etc.

First, describe your job briefly: the main tasks, the scope of your responsibilities, and the degree of satisfaction that the job provides.

Next, using the job design strategies discussed in the Coordinator chapter (166-176), provide specific examples of how to apply job enlargement, job rotation, and job enrichment strategies to your job. What would you recommend to transform the job? Why? What might the outcome be if your ideas were implemented?

To assist you with this exercise, here's a form that you can download and use for this exercise. We will discuss these in class. In all likelihood, we will break into small groups to review outreach proposals and select the best of these to report back to the full class. I will collect your proposed innovations after class.

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Last updated: 10/30/09