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What are work design characteristics and how do they extend the Job Characteristics Model?

Work Design Characteristics

Features of a job that influence its execution and how it is perceived by the employee, including task variety, autonomy, and feedback.

Job Characteristics Model

A theory that suggests jobs should be designed to have five key characteristics (skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback) to increase employee motivation.

Extend

To increase in scope, range, or duration.

  • Explore new models of job design and their implications for organizational effectiveness.
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Work design characteristics refer to attributes of the task, job, and social and organizational environment.They extend the Job Characteristics Model by including additional characteristics besides the core job characteristics (task characteristics).In addition to task characteristics, work design characteristics include knowledge characteristics, social characteristics, and work context characteristics.