Job Design and Individual Differences

Abstract

In the process of designing and improving existing jobs to take account of human as well as technical and commercial factors, we are faced with a number of problems posed by the range of individual differences. These differences are to be found in the contributions that can be expected from people to the way the organisation functions and to the tasks that it carries out. They arise also in what people themselves expect from their working lives and therefore in the ways they react to aspects of the content and context of their jobs.

Citation

White, G.C. (1979), "Job Design and Individual Differences", Management Research News, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 10-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027732