S/HR/80. Job design and Job redesign

This essay will discuss the complex relationship between job satisfaction and work performance in the context of the job design and job redesign. It will start by looking at job satisfaction and assumptions regarding the link to motivation and therefore performance then look that one psychological viewpoint of worker satisfaction and dissatisfaction. In addition, it will demonstrate how important it is to give employees flexibility, and highlight one case of industrial action. Then this essay will look at various theories to make a job more interesting, but can conversely be viewed as a method to make employees work harder with less reward. This essay will also argue that the work life balance is very difficult to achieve in the modern organisation, and finally will present one theory for a happy and productive worker based upon lowering the expectations of the worker.