Does Job enrichment work?
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INTRODUCTION
Job enrichment is an approach to job redesign developed in the late 1950s. The term refers to the alteration of the job content so that the employee is given an identifiable unit of work and granted with more authority and control over his/her job (Herzberg, 1968). For many years job enrichment has concerned people inside and outside academic circles, generating more research investigations than any other technique in the field of job motivation. All
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and Employee Motivation. London: Gower Press Shepard, J., (1971). On loving the one you're with: an agenda for job enrichment research. Kentucky: University of Kentucky Steers, R. M., Porter, L. W., (1983). Motivation and Work Behavior. U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Thompson, P., Mc Hugh, D., (1990). Work Organizations: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Mc Millan Wall, T.D., Martin, R., (1987). Job and Work Design in Cooper, C., Robertson, I. 1987 (eds), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Chicester: Wiley
and Employee Motivation. London: Gower Press Shepard, J., (1971). On loving the one you're with: an agenda for job enrichment research. Kentucky: University of Kentucky Steers, R. M., Porter, L. W., (1983). Motivation and Work Behavior. U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Thompson, P., Mc Hugh, D., (1990). Work Organizations: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Mc Millan Wall, T.D., Martin, R., (1987). Job and Work Design in Cooper, C., Robertson, I. 1987 (eds), International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Chicester: Wiley