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Job design
About: Job design is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9218 publications have been published within this topic receiving 426180 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a curvilinear, inverted U-shaped relationship between the extent of telecommuting and job satisfaction was found to be a strong predictor of job satisfaction.
311 citations
TL;DR: The results suggest that important organizational factors, in addition to job design and engineering systems, may be overlooked when identifying the causes of workplace accidents.
310 citations
TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to summarize that research, from the theoretical underpinnings that drive it, to the identification of team-level elements of success, and the methodologies and instruments that capture and measure those characteristics.
Abstract: As the scope and complexity of modern task demands exceed the capability of individuals to perform, teams are emerging to shoulder the burgeoning requirements Accordingly, researchers have striven to understand and enhance human performance in team settings The purpose of this review is to summarize that research, from the theoretical underpinnings that drive it, to the identification of team-level elements of success, to the methodologies and instruments that capture and measure those characteristics Further specified are three important avenues to creating successful teams: team selection, task design and team training In other words, one can select the right people, provide them with a task engineered for superior performance and train them in the appropriate skills to accomplish that task Under task design, new technologies and automation are examined that both support and impede team functioning Finally, throughout are provided critical remarks about what is known about teamwork and what is needed to be known to move the science and practice of team performance forward The paper concludes with the identification of team issues that require further investigation
307 citations
TL;DR: Employees' attitudes and opinions about their colleagues and the work environment may make all the difference between workers' merely doing a good job and delivering exceptional guest service as mentioned in this paper, and this attitude and opinion about colleagues and work environment can make or break the performance of guest service.
Abstract: Employees' attitudes and opinions about their colleagues and the work environment may make all the difference between workers' merely doing a good job and delivering exceptional guest service.
307 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between structural determinants of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the context of contemporary turnover models using Meta-Analytical Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
305 citations