Who Cares About Job Design? Some Reflections on its Present and Future

Abstract

In the last 15 years increasing attention has been paid to what has become known as the “quality of working life”. Job design, sometimes known as work design, work organisation or the humanisation of work, has emerged as a recognisable area of study. There are now innumerable articles which include such terms in their titles and a number of books which deal with the development and dimensions of the subject area. What are the chances that a discipline will develop? How likely is it that the discipline will be applied in practice? The answer to these questions rests upon the answer to the four main questions examined in this paper.

Citation

Kirkman, F. (1981), "Who Cares About Job Design? Some Reflections on its Present and Future", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054671