What is Job Design? Job Design is the structure of tasks within a particular job. Theoretically, an effective job should be based on the Job Characteristics Model: task variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and supervisor feedback. Task Variety: A selection of several tasks within a job. Task Identity: Whether or not an employee completes an entire task or only part of it. Task Significance: The value of a task to the job incumbent. "Is this task actually valuable?" "Am I making a difference to other people by completing this task?" Autonomy: Level of an employee's self-direction in his or her job. Feedback: Supervisory input and response to the incumbent about his or her performance.

Job Design and Work Organization http://www.accel-team.com/work_design/ Designing jobs to meet the needs of both employee and employer. What is Job Design? http://www.shef.ac.uk/~iwp/publications/whatis/job_design.pdf A very appropriate discussion of Job Design from the University of Sheffield.