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Job Evaluation
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Systemcatically rating the worth of jobs within an organization by measuring their required skill, effort, reponsibility and working conditions.
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Gainsharing Plans
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team-based rewards that calculate bonuses from the work unit's cost savings and productivity improvement.
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Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
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reward systems that encourage employees to buy company shares.
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Share Options
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reward systems that give employees the right to purchase company shares at a future date at a predetermined price.
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Profit-Sharing Plans
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A reward system that pays bonuses to employees on the basis of the previous year's level of corporate profits.
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Job Design
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process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependancy of those tasks with other jobs.
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Job Specialization
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The result of division of labour in which each job includes a subset of the tasks required to complete the product or service.
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Scientific Management
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Practice of systematically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency.
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Motivator-Hygiene Theory
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Herzberg's theory stating that employees are primarily motivated by growth and esteem needs, not by lower-level needs.
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Job Characteristics Model
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A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties.
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Skill Variety
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Extent to which employees must use different skills and talents to perform tasks within their jobs.
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Task Identity
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Degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identifiable piece of work.
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Task Significance
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Degree to which a job has a substantial impact on the organization and/or larger society.
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Autonomy
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Degree to which a job gives employees the freedom, independance and discretion to schedule their work and to determine the procedures used in completing it.
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Job Feedback
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Degree to which employees can tell how well they are doing on the basis of direct sensory information from the job itself.
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