Work Design and Performance
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Transformative Work Design: Synthesis and New Directions. ed. / Sharon K. Parker; Florian Erik Klonek; Caroline Knight; Fangfang Zhang. Oxford University Press, 2025. p. 147-174.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Work Design and Performance
AU - Ohly, Sandra
AU - Venz, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2025.
PY - 2025/5
Y1 - 2025/5
N2 - The chapter on work design and performance provides a review of the work characteristics that have been linked to performance outcomes such as proficiency, adaptivity, proactivity/creativity, and safety performance. Using Stephen Humphrey and colleagues’ meta-analysis as a starting point, it provides an update on more recent research and broadens the perspective of relevant work characteristics. As linkage between work characteristics and performance, research on motivation, learning, and cognitive capacity is discussed. Recommendation for future research include a stronger focus on learning and cognitive capacity as explanations of how work design affects performance, incorporating a distinction of primary and secondary tasks into theorizing.
AB - The chapter on work design and performance provides a review of the work characteristics that have been linked to performance outcomes such as proficiency, adaptivity, proactivity/creativity, and safety performance. Using Stephen Humphrey and colleagues’ meta-analysis as a starting point, it provides an update on more recent research and broadens the perspective of relevant work characteristics. As linkage between work characteristics and performance, research on motivation, learning, and cognitive capacity is discussed. Recommendation for future research include a stronger focus on learning and cognitive capacity as explanations of how work design affects performance, incorporating a distinction of primary and secondary tasks into theorizing.
KW - Adaptivity
KW - Cognitive capacity
KW - Creativity
KW - Job performance
KW - Learning
KW - Motivation
KW - Proactivity
KW - Proficiency
KW - Safety
KW - Work characteristics
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105008848331&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780197692554.003.0005
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780197692554.003.0005
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105008848331
SN - 9780197692554
SP - 147
EP - 174
BT - Transformative Work Design
A2 - Parker, Sharon K.
A2 - Klonek, Florian Erik
A2 - Knight, Caroline
A2 - Zhang, Fangfang
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -