TY  - JOUR
AB  - Attitudes towards job design are changing. Initially, managers were influenced by the concept of the division of labour, or specialisation. This consisted of breaking‐up the work into a series of distinct operations, the operations then being shared out amongst a group of workers. The scientific management group — Taylor, Gilbreth, Bedaux and the like — developed procedures by which work could be more ‘scientifically’ accomplished. They stressed the significance of physical activities, and their work — combined with the work of the early industrial psychologists on fatigue, training and optimum environmental conditions — led persons to believe that the industrial worker could, if given the right monetary reward, be ‘set up’ to produce maximal output.
VL  - 16
IS  - 2/3
SN  - 0040-0912
DO  - 10.1108/eb016337
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016337
AU  - Jones Lyndon
PY  - 1974
Y1  - 1974/01/01
TI  - Job design in the office
T2  - Education + Training
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 63
EP  - 64
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -