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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Contemporary Job Design and Technological Impacts

BOP702 · Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards — Week 6 of 16

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Week6 of 16
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This week’s topics

Contemporary Job Design and Technological Impacts

  1. Algorithmic management and automation
  2. Remote, hybrid, and agile work arrangements
  3. Autonomous work teams
  4. Proactive job crafting behaviours
  5. Job Design. Or is it Job CRAFTING???
  6. In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? How to Tailor Your Setting to the Task at Hand
  7. Autonomous Work Team

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Critically evaluate the different approaches to job design in an organisation.
  • 2.2 Assess how job design is used to motivate employees in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate the different approaches to job design in an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • Job Design. Or is it Job CRAFTING??? · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 20 min · for registered students
  • In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? How to Tailor Your Setting to the Task at Hand · YouTube · Stanford Online · 44 min · for registered students
  • Autonomous Work Team · YouTube · MBA Planet · 28 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Systematically reviewing remote e-workers' well-being at work: a multidimensional approach · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
  • CIPD: Flexible and hybrid working practices in 2023 · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
  • Impact of work-from-home arrangements on performance and productivity: a review · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Organisational Motivation
  • Week 2: Socio-Cultural Contexts of Workplace Motivation
  • Week 3: Content Theories of Employee Motivation
  • Week 4: Process Theories and Comparative Analysis
  • Week 5: Evolution and Models of Job Design
  • Week 6: Contemporary Job Design and Technological Impacts
  • Week 7: Mobilising Job Design for Employee Motivation
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reward Paradigms
  • Week 10: Mechanisms of Reward Determination
  • Week 11: Performance-Related Pay and Strategic Reward Governance
  • Week 12: Applying Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards in p…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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