Career Development Discussion

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--Discussion 1: Failure to differentiate or integrate or both may result in poorly designed jobs, which may lead to performance problems. In contrast, well-designed jobs improve productivity and enhance employee satisfaction. Four approaches to job design developed during the 20th century include scientific management, job enlargement/job rotation, job enrichment, and the job characteristics theory. Describe and compare four traditional approaches to the design of work in America.

The job design primary goal is in structuring a formula to successfully accomplishing the overall job tasks accordingly to the company's blueprint of operations. Thus, the job rotation is more towards providing several positive means for both the employee and company by enhancing knowledge as well as expertise within a particular field. Hence, the job enlargement and job rotation offers an opportunity to foster learning new skill sets as well as obtaining business goals for completing daily required job tasks. In most cases, the job enhancement and job rotation assists smaller businesses entities in reaching their daily requirements to producing the product or service without hiring more staff members (increase labor costs). Try and identifying the work in America as a balancing act in using job incentives as well as job enlargement that can lead to pay increases (the employee now has an added skill worthy of higher payout and value to the company's bottom-line).

--Discussion 2: As a manager, how would you balance the need for a work adjustment for an employee with a disability with your need to design jobs that meet organizational performance goals? What issues would you need to consider ensuring the well-being of an employee with a disability with regard to job control, uncertainty, and conflict? Recommend an appropriate course of action and justify your response.

Consider the work adjustment as an opportunity for equal employee met initiative that every individual is eligible for employment at the company, thus, the job position must entail a way to having disable individual access to the job. For instance, the listing of weighing or moving around ...