Topic outline

  • LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    - Understanding how jobs and knowledge work can be designed for better performance and well-being

    - Understanding how to craft your own job, career, and life

    PRE-ASSIGNEMNT:

    READ: Morgeson, Garza and Campion 2012

    and come prepared to discuss the following questions in our online class:

    • What job characteristics do you value the most and why?
    • Where could you find and/or how might you get a job that includes these characteristics?

    LIST OF OPTIONAL READINGS

    Future of work design

    Gibson, C. B., Gibbs, J. L., Stanko, T., Tesluk, P., & Cohen, S. G. 2011. Including “I” in virtual and modern job design: Extending the job characteristics model to include the moderating effect of individual experiences of electronic dependence and copresence. Organization Science, 22(6): 1481–1499.

    Grant, A. M., & Parker, S. K. 2009. Redesigning work design theories: The rise of relational and proactive perspectives. Academy of Management Annals, 3(1): 317–375.

    Humphrey, S. E., Nahrgang, J. D., & Morgeson, F. P. 2007. Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features: A meta-analytic summary and theoretical extension of the work design literature. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(5): 1332–1356.

    Oldham, G., & Hackman, J. 2010. Not what it was and not what it will be: The future of job design research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(2–3): 463–479.

    Oldham, G., & Fried, Y. 2016. Job design research and theory: Past, present and future. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136(1): 20-35.

    Schein, E. H. & Van Maanen, J. 2016. Career anchors and job/role planning: Tools for career and talent management. Organizational Dynamics, 45, 165-173.

    Sonnentag, S. 2015. Dynamics of well-being. The Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 2, 261-293.