Business AS Level

3.6.3 Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow

Influences on job design:

• size of business
• skills of employee
• organisational structure

Hackman & Oldeham's Model:

• based on the belief that the task itself is vital for employee motivation
• suggested that there are five job characteristics that can be studied to help predict job satisfaction; skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, job feedback

Influences on organisational design:

• authority- who is in charge
• span of control- how many people someone is in control of
• hierarchy- ranking according to authority
• delegation- passing down responsibility
• centralisation- single authority in charge
• decentralisation- the transfer of authority from single to local

The value of…