Effect of Work Design to Performance ,Productivity and health and safety


What is Work Design..

“Work design is the creation of system of work and a working environment that enhance organizational effectiveness and and productivity, ensure the organizational become “ A grate place to work” and are the conductive to health, safety and well being of employees”
                                                                              Armstrong (2014, p.136),

The main objective the work design is used to boost the productivity of the organizations by enhancing the motivation, satisfaction and the sense of personal achievement.  Creating system of work and making good environment is help to overcome the employee dissatisfaction and the de motivation. Its basically content and organization and employee work tasks to meet objectives. Both way benefits are there.

GOOD WORK DESIGN
“I love my job. I’ve learned so much. I can talk the talk with biochemists, software engineers, all these interesting people... And I love being independent, relying on myself. It’s exciting”
(Corporate headhunter, Bowe et al, 2009. P12)

1.1 Motivational Aspects of work design
Every employee has a number of tasks, activities and responsibilities that need to carry out, usually in the work place collaboration with others. Work design is basically how these tasks, activities, responsibilities and interactions with other people are organized and structured. Good work design is helps to increase the productivity/safety/performance/innovation which is more important to achieve organization objectives, as it affects both individual employees and organizational outcomes. For employees, work design can affect their motivation, their well-being and their development. Increased employee motivation.
Core elements to think about when creating a motivating job
·         Clear objectives
·         Time management
·         Job connectivity
·         Team building
·         Job autonomy
·         Job demands
·         Social support
·         Role clarity
·         Job variety
·         Job feedback
·         Skill utilization  

2.     Effect of work design
As mentioned before, the work is designed can affect Both employee and organizations of below area.
2.1.1        Employee Well-being
1.      Changing the nature, number or organization of tasks and responsibilities to reduce stress and/or provide more resources, such as making modifications to working hours, introducing working from home policies, flexible work hours, form standard work sheet, GL culture, set achievable KPI and measure individual performance and providing more supportive environment.
2.       Empowering and motivating employees to proactively implement their own strategies to reduce sources of stress, and/or increase their resources (e.g. allowing employees the freedom to structure their own work day)

2.1.2        Performance & Productivity
Good work is productive, efficient work and the level of quality is higher. also as mentioned before, work design can optimize motivation, job satisfaction, performance, safety and innovation. work design that makes better use of employee skills and the connectivity either through increasing task variety or skill utilization. Moreover, building motivation into work can help to develop a committed and energized workforce.




2.1.3        Designing Work that is Healthy and Safe

Health and safety is a most important criteria for the organizations where support to the productivity as well as the compliance.  The link between work design and employee health has been of interest due to that importance and needed for the design of healthy work today due to the increased complexity, demands and pressure in many jobs and heightened concerns about health issues in society.


Figure 1:Five ways safe and effective laboratory

References

Anon., n.d. [Online]
Available at: https://www.centreforsafety.com.au
[Accessed 4 1 2019].



Comments

  1. AmithJanuary 5, 2019 at 7:17 PM

    Work design and its impact ultimate objectives of the organization properly described with inter dependability and how important it to the organizations good article

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  2. IshanJanuary 6, 2019 at 2:05 AM

    Good share on effects of work design towards performance , productivity & health and safety

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  3. ShanikaJanuary 6, 2019 at 9:13 AM

    You have explained well about effect of work designing to organizational performance and productivity.good job

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  4. Sampath W D NJanuary 6, 2019 at 9:22 AM

    Interesting topic and you have clearly explain. ...thanks for sharing. ..👌👌👌👌👌

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