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Job design (Connect, Perform) Management at Work As the charge nurse at American Hospital, you are responsible for assigning nurses to their tasks every day

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Job design (Connect, Perform)

Management at Work

As the charge nurse at American Hospital, you are responsible for assigning nurses to their tasks every day. There are six tasks that must be done for the hospital to run efficiently, and these tasks require two levels of skills. At the lower skill level, nurses must bathe, turn, and feed patients. At the higher level, nurses can modify treatments, plan patient care, and order tests.

You have decided to ask each nurse to assume responsibility for tasks at both levels of work. Your plan is to give each nurse complete responsibility for his or her own job. The nurses will make their own decisions about how to do their work, and they will be able to order the supplies they need. You can see an illustration of this assignment in the following figure.

These employee assignments show a job design strategy ofrotation  

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What can you expect as a result of your job design strategy?  Check all that apply.

 

Increased job challenge

 

 

Increased long-term employee satisfaction

 

 

Increased worker autonomy

 

 

Increased job variety

 

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Explanation:

Your job design strategy is enrichment. Job enrichment involves giving employees the opportunity to learn higher-level skills so that they can grow and develop. More importantly, enriched jobs also contain key motivators such as autonomy and control. As a result, employees experience more satisfaction, commitment, and motivation, which leads to lower turnover and higher performance.