Title: Factors affecting Job Design
Headings: Factors affecting Job Design
Factors affecting Job Design
Organizational Factors
Environmental Factors
Behavioural Factors
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Content: Organizational Factors
Environmental Factors
Behavioural Factors
Organizational Factors
Organizational factors that affect job design can be work nature or characteristics, work flow, organizational practices and ergonomics. Work Nature: There are various elements of a job and job design is required to classify various tasks into a job or a coherent set of jobs. The various tasks may be planning, executing, monitoring, controlling etc and all these are to be taken into consideration while designing a job. Ergonomics: Ergonomics aims at designing jobs in such a way that the physical abilities and individual traits of employees are taken into consideration so as to ensure efficiency and productivity. Workflow: Product and service type often determines the sequence of work flow. A balance is required between various product or service processes and a job design ensures this. Culture: