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Management
Chapter 10 –
Human Resources
and Job Design
PowerPoint presentation to accompany
Heizer/Render
Principles of Operations Management, 7e
Operations Management, 9e
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Outline
Global Company Profile: Rusty
Wallace’s NASCAR Racing Team
Human Resource Strategy
For Competitive Advantage
Constraints on Human Resource
Strategy
Labor Planning
Employment-Stability Policies
Work Schedules
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Outline – Continued
Job Design
Labor Specialization
Job Expansion
Psychological Components of Job
Design
Self-Directed Teams
Motivation and Incentive Systems
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• Materials used ha equipment used
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• Safety • Safety
Pr
Schedules Individual differences
• Time of day When Who • Strength and
• Time of year HUMAN fatigue
(seasonal) RESOURCE • Information
• Stability of STRATEGY processing and
schedules response
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• Temperature • Process
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Control
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Core Job Characteristics
Jobs should include the following
characteristics
Skill variety
Job identity
Job significance
Autonomy
Feedback
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Job Design Continuum
Self-directed
teams
Increasing
Empowerment reliance on
employee’s
Enrichment contribution
and
Enlargement increasing
responsibility
Specialization accepted by
employee
Job expansion
Figure 10.3