Evaluation of a New Method for Assessing Change to Planned Job Redesign as Applied to Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristic Model.

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Abstract:

Pre and Post ratings of job characteristics collected in studies of planned job redesign may provide inaccurate assessment of perceived change if the intervention alters the frame of reference used by the incumbent to anchor responses. Based on Howards work with response shifts Howard et al, 1979, an experimental simulation was conducted that included Pre, Post and Retrospective Then ratings. Forty eight subjects worked at enriched and unenriched versions of a work-study job. Although a response shift was not found, retrospective ratings were found to be internally valid and using a within subjects design, support for the Hackman-Oldham model was observed. Future use of retrospective ratings is discussed. Author

Author(s):
Terborg, James R. ; Davis, Gregory A.
Author Organization(s):
HOUSTON UNIV TEX
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.,
Supplementary Note:
Prepared in cooperation with Oregon Univ., Eugene. Graduate School of Management.
Pagination:
0048

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
TR-80-6
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-78-C-0756
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_1.2.1_Training; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_1.1_Force Management; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_5.2_Understand
Communities of Interest:
Autonomy
Descriptor(s):
*JOB ANALYSIS, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, RESPONSE, SHIFTING, RATINGS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Personnel Management and Labor Relations
Keyword(s):
*Job design, WUNR170877
Report Date:
1980 Dec 01