Journal VOL. 2 NO. 2, September. 2021, ISSN: 2811 - 2628
Contributory Role of Job Design to Employee Performance in an Organisation
Onwuliri Callistus Chuks, Olabanji John Olusanya, Gafar Olusegun Quadri, Adewuyi Titilayo Olukemi
ABSTRACT
The recent changes in technology have made the global market become highly competitive and dynamic. Most work systems and methods have become obsolete and do not match these changes, hence inhibiting communication and employee motivation. These developments are now making managers to take more cognizance of changing attitudes and expectations of employees. They are supposed to diagnose current work system in order to find new ways to organizing work so that it allows more flexibility, brings motivation and job satisfaction to employees. For any organisation to have productive employees and also to maximize its production, work design is vital. The related concepts that are highlighted to provide a better understanding of job design include skill variety, role identity, job feedback, job significance, accountability, empowerment, autonomy and knowledge. The literature established that there is a need for methods and tools that organisations can utilize to design jobs with the motive to eliminate poor performance. The objective of the study is to examine the contributory role of job design to employee performance in an organisation. The study adopted qualitative research to broadly discuss about the concept of job design and its contributory role to employee performance. The study is generally literature based and it was established therein that job design breeds job satisfaction and employee commitment, organisational productivity, performance, trust, justice, training and goals realization and creates room for variation of work skills and roles, innovation and efficiency. The study recommended that both private and public enterprises (firms, organisations and institutions) must start designing their jobs in most suitable ways so as to rouse employee performance, motivation and job satisfaction.
Keywords: Job-Design, Motivation, Organisation, Performance, Job Satisfaction.
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