Development and Test of a Task Level Model of Motivational Job Design

The motivational value of jobs was predicted from the motivational value of tasks, task interdependence, and task similarity. This model was tested on 67 jobs (188 incumbents); analysts provided task measures and incumbents provided job measures. Results suggest that, to design motivating jobs, the motivational values of tasks should be increased, as should task interdependence (up to a moderate point); low to moderate amounts of task similarity do not matter.

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