Technology and Work Design

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Technology and Work Design The purpose of this essay is to analyse the problems connected with applying job redesign techniques in the workplace and to give possible solutions towards job redesign implementation. This written work also aims to establish a connection between the types of work design and the factors which affect them, and furthermore – to investigate the process of motivating employees within a company, regarding their abilities, their goal-directed manners and their work performance as a whole (Slocum and Hellriegel, 2009). This paper’s core argument is based on the concept of Scientific Management which was first developed by the American mechanical engineer Frederick Taylor in the Early Twentieth Century.Another concept, which will be analysed in this paper, is the mass production technique, developed by the American industrialist Henry Ford who is well-known for the invention of the ‘’Model T’’ cars. In nowadays’ business environment technology and work design are strongly interrelated due to the need of companies to adapt to the newest technological changes. By definition technology is the course by which an organization entity changes its resources (inputs) into different products and services (outputs) (Bratton and Sawchuk, 2010). The technology processes occur on an individual, group, structural and managerial level and affectall types of organizational design (e.g. Mechanistic; Organic (Slocum andHellriegel, 2009)).One of the main issues concerningtechnologisation of work is the division of labour- this concept refers to the different ways that a task can be divided in order to maximise achievement of goals. The main drawback of such division is that employees performing basic and routine jobs which do not require many skills often become what is also known as ‘’boreout’’ (Rothlin and Werder, (2008), cited in Buchanan and Huczynski, 2010).

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