If a job has a high MPS, the job characteristics model predicts motivation, performance and job satisfaction will be positively affected and the likelihood of negative outcomes, such as absenteeism and turnover, will be reduced.
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If a job has a high MPS, the job characteristics model predicts that motivation, performance and job satisfaction will be positively affected and the likelihood of negative outcomes, such as absenteeism and turnover, will be reduced.
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In 1975, Greg R . Oldham and J . Richard Hackman constructed the original version of the Job Characteristics Theory ( JCT ), which is based on earlier work by Turner and Lawrence and Hackman and Lawler.
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The job characteristics of middle class respondents included : " " Work Independently, Varied Tasks, Work with People or Data, " " versus working class parents of reported " " Close Supervision and Repetitive Work & ""
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Further, Hackman and Lawler indicated the direct effect of job characteristics on employee's work related attitudes and behaviors and, more importantly, the individual differences in need for development, which is called Growth Need Strength in Job Characteristics Theory.
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The report, " Running in Place : How Immigrant Status, Job Characteristics and Family Structure Keep Hispanics Uninsured, " also said that foreign-born Latinos are twice as likely to lack coverage than those born in the United States.
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According to the theory, certain core job characteristics are responsible for each psychological state : skill variety, task identity, and task significance shape the experienced meaningfulness; autonomy affects experienced responsibility, and feedback contributes to the knowledge of results.
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Such job characteristics can include distance from work, type of work, location, the social environment at work, etc . If different workers have different preferences, employers have local monopsony power over workers that strongly prefer working for them.
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According to the equation above, a low standing on either autonomy or feedback will substantially compromise a job's MPS, because autonomy and feedback are the only job characteristics expected to foster experienced responsibility and knowledge of results, respectively.
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Further, Hackman and Lawler indicated the direct effect of job characteristics on employee's work related attitudes and behaviors and, more importantly, the individual differences in need for development, which is called Growth Need Strength in Job Characteristics Theory.
