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Job Characteristics Model (JCM) is almost 30 years old. There are 5 characteristics defined by J. Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham in 1980. A sixth one, self-expression, was added by O’Brien in 1985.
Task Identity – related to the fact that a piece of work can be identified as having a beginning and an end or...
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Just defining the concept of attitude is nice.
I care mostly about the answer to one question: What’s in it for me?
The functions you achieve by understating attitudes relates to:
Expressing values – your attitude allows you to express who you are and what you believe in.
Ego-defensive – you project your...
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A few management products I can recommend:
Safety E-books And E-reports
E-books And E-reports To Help People Work Even More Safely And To Help Managers Help Their People Wpork Even More Safely. Practicak Advice Without The Usual “safety-speak” And Stuff You Can Use In Meetings, Toolbox Talks And Inductions.
Safety...
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Organizational behavior is, as simple as possible said, the representation of people’s dynamics in an organized environment: company, public sector or NGO = a collective person.
Dynamics, in physics, is the study of the causes of motion and its five variables: momentum, force, potential energy, pressure and power.
Momentum is...
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A job is not only about the money. It is about a compensation that is satisfactory, a challenging work environment, the opportunities for moving forward in your career, and about the people that you work with.
Even if you would like your job to be something repetitive, with fixed hours and just breaking the door when the bell rings,...
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An effective negotiation should be a win-win situation … as long as you understand its complexity. It is mainly a form of conflict management. In a conflict somebody should win. When the parties involved understand that the enemy is the issue, everybody wins. There are many conflict management strategies and we will discuss...
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