Question

1. Imagine that you are the manager of a small clothing manufacturer. You wish to retain your more senior employees who typically work faster in completing each item of clothing than newer employees. Nevertheless, because 80 percent of your current workforce is over 50 you need to incentivize new hires in order to be sure you have an adequate supply of skilled workers in ten years' time. Devise an extrinsic reward plan that rewards skilled workers as well as new workers who need to acquire skills.
2. Use Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model to assess a job you have held in the past or one with which you are familiar. Consider each of the five core dimensions (skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback) for the job. Based on your assessment, what positive changes could be made to enhance the job?
3. Imagine that you have replaced Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo. Based on what you have learned in this chapter about intrinsic motivation, extrinsic rewards, and the job characteristics model would you continue or rescind the no telecommuting policy she implemented? why or why not? Discuss.

Answer 1