Assignment Job Design

Social Relations at Work

MGMT-6333
Dated: 20-05-10
Due Date = 10-06-10
Total marks = 05
Objective:
Management in itself is managing specific attitudes and behaviors of people in the organization. We have to get work done from people having various
levels of competencies, skills and attitudes. You have learned about motivating techniques. One of the important functions of HR manager is to be able
to construct a motivating job design. The challenge is how flexible the job design must be and what incentives it must have inherent in itself that would
make employees of an organization work effectively and happily? Let us test how ready you are to take this challenge. You are required to prepare a
job design document for any of the job title assigned to you from the following list.
What is to be done?
It is a pair-group activity. Each pair has to design a job for different jobs assigned to them keeping in view the psychological characteristics and
efficiency/satisfaction perspective in mind. You have to discuss in your report and presentation about opportunities of rotation and enrichment of the job
as well. You will need to interview at least 3-5 people working on the job, so that you are better informed about the duties and tasks one has to perform
at the job. You can prepare an alternative compensation and incentive plan for the job as well. The related consulting material will be available at the
book shop. Kindly get a copy for yourself.
At the end you will submit a word processed report as well as present your design before the class. Each group will be allocated 5-7 minutes for
presentation to present their design. The job titles are as follows:
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Primary school teacher (public school) (Sajid (c))

Secondary school teacher (private school) (Atif c)
Lecturer at PCC (Punjab College of Commerce) JabbarA
Administrator general affairs (PCBA)- Abida A
Lady Guard (PCBA) (Mehran C)
Gate keepers (Mubashira)
Peon (Madiha & Gull)
Beautician at Depilex (masooma)
Assistant professor (Punjab University)
Medical Officer (Any government hospital Grade 17) (Mehr)
A construction engineer (junior architect at a private firm) (Afzia)
Traffic Warden (Usman Farrukh)
Police Constable (Saadia Nazir)
SHO Police (Asad)
Lineman (Wapda) (Fahdia)
Executive Engineer (PTCL) (Ayesha ijaz)
HR consultant (Packages/Lever Brothers) (Jawaria)
MTO (Banks) (Jawad)
Officer Sales (TRG) (Azam)
Manager Operations at any large Retail store (HKB) (Nafees & Khurram)
Daewoo Bus driver (Zubair Idrees)
Ware House manager (Ali Khan / Zunair)
TV Host/news caster (Syed Fizan)
Signal operator Railway (Umer Ijaz)

Good Luck
Seema Arif
Asst. Professor Psychology
PCBA