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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Mobilising Job Design for Employee Motivation

BOP702 · Motivation, Job design, and Extrinsic Rewards — Week 7 of 16

CourseBOP702
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Mobilising Job Design for Employee Motivation

  1. Job enrichment, enlargement, and rotation
  2. Psychological empowerment and experienced meaningfulness
  3. Autonomy and feedback loops
  4. Mitigating role overload and burnout
  5. Mod-01 Lec-16 Job Design, Work and Motivation (Contd.)

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Assess how job design is used to motivate employees in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess how job design is used to motivate employees in an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • BUSA 340 Job Characteristics Model · YouTube · ProfJonsen · 9 min · for registered students
  • Employee Motivation Theory (Maslow & Vroom) & the Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1976) · YouTube · Statistics and Research with Dr. Wendi L. Benson · 24 min · for registered students
  • Hackman and Oldham The Job Characteristics Model · YouTube · flixabout.com · 16 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 6: Designing a Motivating Work Environment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 205–252 · for registered students
  • Intrinsic Rewards and Employee's Performance with the Mediating Role of Motivation · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
  • A Review of Self-Determination Theory's Basic Psychological Needs at Work · 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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