Job characteristics theory is a theory of work design. It provides “a set of implementing principles for enriching jobs in organizational settings”. The...

job. Shortly after Herzberg's Two-factor theory, Hackman and Oldham contributed their own, more refined, job-based theory; Job characteristic theory (JCT)...

This theory suggests that to improve job attitudes and productivity, administrators must recognize and attend to both sets of characteristics and not...

Job characteristic theory – Theory of work design Labour market flexibility – Speed with which labour markets adapt to changes Media richness theory –...

their productivity. The central proposition of job characteristics theory - that is, that work characteristics affect attitudinal outcomes - is well established...

framework Voluntary redundancy Job characteristic theory Leader–member exchange theory Organisation climate Organizational identification...

task design can play a key role in team effectiveness. Job characteristic theory identifies core job dimensions that affect motivation, satisfaction, performance...

Personality–job fit theory is a form of organizational psychology, that postulates that an individual's personality traits will reveal insight into their...

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be predicted...

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Locke's Range of Affect Theory (1976) is arguably the most famous job satisfaction model. The main premise of this theory is that satisfaction is determined...

dispositions, workplace events, job characteristics, job opportunities, and employee behavior exhibited while on the job (e.g., organizational citizenship...

assignment of agents to each job characteristic is an injective function, or one-to-one function from agents to a given job characteristic. Alternatively, describing...

Victor Vroom, and Douglas McGregor. These theories underline employee motivation, work performance, and job satisfaction. Herbert Simon's Administrative...

theory, the manager's job is viewed as guiding workers to choose the best paths to reach their goals, as well as the organizational goals. The theory...

activation theory is based on a specific model of job performance, and can be considered an elaborated or extended view of personality-job fit. Specifically...

Marston's DISC emotional and behavioral theory, first published in 1928. These assessments aim to improve job performance by categorizing individuals...

A job description or JD is a written narrative that describes the general tasks, or other related duties, and responsibilities of a position. It may specify...

drawer becomes untidy, which is exactly the case in Weber's theory; if one characteristic is not fulfilled the rest of them are unable to work in unison...

representation, making it computationally impractical. In cooperative game theory the characteristic function lists the payoff of each coalition. The origin of this...

methods for dispelling conspiracy theories have been studied in the context of public health campaigns. A key characteristic of communication strategies to...

own specific working characteristics, these characteristics can be classified in two general categories (i.e. job demands and job resources), thus constituting...

responsible for job satisfaction as well as increased commitment and creativity. This theory implies, for example, that increasing salary and job security may...

Job crafting is an individually-driven work design process which refers to self-initiated, proactive strategies to change the characteristics of one's...

task, job, or function that needs to be accomplished. Several studies do not support all of the prescriptions offered by situational leadership theory. Hersey...

Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their...

to be controlled by elites), populism, and the political theory of pluralism. Elite theory is the sociological or political science analysis of elite...

specifically on jobs and task domains. By the 1990s LMX had started to become a substantial theory, integrating the previous theories of organizational...

learning theory has a holistic perspective which includes experience, perception, cognition and behaviour. It is a method where a person's skills and job requirements...

This is a list of notable conspiracy theories. Many conspiracy theories relate to supposed clandestine government plans and elaborate murder plots. They...