This document discusses motivation and job design and their relationship to employee performance. It defines motivation as what drives people to work towards goals and job design as how tasks are organized. It then states that properly designing jobs using approaches like job simplification, enlargement, rotation, and enrichment can increase employee motivation and thus improve performance. Each of these job design approaches are then briefly defined.

1. By AbdullahHanif
(Reg# 17776)

2. Motivation is a psychological feature that
awakens organism to act towards a
desired goal, controls, and sustains certain
goal-directed behaviors.

3. A systematic attempt to organize tasks,
duties and responsibilities into a unit of
work to achieve certain objective

4. An individual output in terms of quality
and quantity expected from every
employee in a particular job.

5. If a job is perfectly designed by using correct ‘Job-Design
Approaches’
It will definitely effect upon motivation level of an
individual
An increase in motivation level of an employee will
increase in Performance level

7. Job simplification
Job enlargement
Job rotation
Job enrichment

8. Job simplification is a design method whereby jobs are
divided into smaller components and subsequently
assigned to workers as whole jobs.
Job enlargement expands job horizontally. It increases
job scope; that is, it increases the number of different
operations required in a job and the frequency with
which the job cycle is repeated

9. Job rotation refers to the movement of an employee from
one job to another. Jobs themselves are not actually
changed, only the employee are rotated among various jobs
Job enrichment is a way to motivate employees by
giving them more responsibilities and variety in their
jobs. a well enriched job should contain a range of tasks
and challenges of varying difficulties, meaningful tasks,
and feedback, encouragement, and communication