EPISODE · Mar 6, 2011 · 18 MIN
Episode 142: How To Make Jobs More Satisfying and Motivating
from Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files · host Michael Britt
Do you have a dull job? Wonder how it can be made more motivating? That's the challenge - how can we make jobs that are typically not much fun (like an assembly line job) more interesting to do? This is one of the challenges facing I/O psychologists and in this episode I discuss the Job Characteristics theory by Hackman and Oldham and apply it to assembly line jobs in China where your iPhone is made and where a record number of suicides have occurred over the past few years. Can we use job redesign to make such jobs more tolerable? 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?
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Do you have a dull job? Wonder how it can be made more motivating? That's the challenge - how can we make jobs that are typically not much fun (like an assembly line job) more interesting to do? This is one of the challenges facing I/O psychologists and in this episode I discuss the Job Characteristics theory by Hackman and Oldham and apply it to assembly line jobs in China where your iPhone is made and where a record number of suicides have occurred over the past few years. Can we use job redesign to make such jobs more tolerable? 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?
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