This is a practical assignment where you are required
to visit some organization in your locality and get
information from someone at managerial post or the
spokesperson of that particular organization about their Job
Characteristics Model (JCM).
1. You have to answer, “To
what extent their job/ organization provides them the
following elements of JCM”; and discuss how these
elements help in better performance of employees as well as
the progress of that organization?
i. Autonomy (level of freedom provided to employees in taking decisions about different job related matters)
ii. Skill variety (how the job tasks are matched according
to the talents and skills of employees, do the jobs
are assigned according to the expertise of employees,
do single employee can perform different tasks)
iii. Feedback : (information provided about the performance of the employee)
2. Suggest some practices that will help the organization in improving their existing system?
Guidelines:
• Visit any organization in your locality and gets
information regarding the above mentioned fundamentals of JCM.
• Give the organization name, address and contact number
along with name and designation of contacted employee at the
top of your assignment.
• Critically analyze the information and assure its credibility.
• Discuss the three elements separately.
• Assure the concerned person that information would be
kept confidential and would be used only for
academics purposes.
