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A STUDY ON JOB DESIGN

TOWARDS EMPLOYEE
MOTIVATION AT M/S S&S POWER
SWITCHGEAR EQUIPMENT
LIMITED, PUDUCHERRY

SUMMER PROJECT WORK

Submitted by

SESHAAKUMAR M

Register No: 21810398

Under the guidance of

Mr.K. KARMUGILAN, M.B.A.,

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of management studies

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

MANAKULA VINAYAGAR INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY

PUDUCHERRY – 605 107

DECEMBER- 2022
 MANAKULA VINAYAGAR INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, PONDICHERRY
UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Major Project work entitled “A STUDY ON JOB DESIGN
TOWARDS EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AT S&S POWER SWITCHGEAR
EQUIPMENT LIMITED, PUDUCHERRY” is a bonafide work done by SESHAAKUMAR M
(Register number: 21810398) in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Master of
Business Administration by Pondicherry University during academic year 2022-2023.

GUIDE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

Submitted for viva- voce examination held on

EXTERNAL EXAMINER
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I express my sincere thanks and deep sense of gratitude to our Management of MANAKULA
VINAYAGAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Puducherry Chairman & Managing Director
Shri. M. DHANASEKARAN and Shri. S.V SUGUMARAN, Vice-Chairman& Secretary-SMVEC
trust for providing necessary and essential facilities to do the project.

I am extremely grateful to Our Principal Dr. S MALARKKAN for his support and encouragement
for the completion of my project report.

I express my sincere thanks and deep sense of gratitude to our Head of the Department, Professor
Dr. P. BASKARAN Department of Management Studies for providing me with anopportunity to
study and to do this report.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to my guide, Mr. K. KARMUGILAN Assistant Professor,

Department of Management Studies, for his encouragement, support and guidance to completeproject
work successfully.

I extend my deep gratitude to Mr. S. THIRUMALAI, General Manager – Human Resource, S&S
POWER SWITCHGEAR EQUIPMENT LIMITED for allowing me to do the project.

I express my sincere thanks to Mr. R. GUNASEKARAN, HR supervisor, S&S POWER

SWITCHGEAR EQUIPMENT LIMITED for their guidance incompletion of the project report.

Finally, I express my sincere thanks to all my family members and friends for their
co-operation in completion of this project report. Also, I thank almighty for this immense blessing.

SESHAAKUMAR M
 ABSTRACT

The main objective of this research paper is to acquire an understanding of meaning and
significanceof job design towards the motivation of employees at the work.

Job design is the division of work tasks assigned to an individual in an organization that
specifies what the worker does, how, and why. Effective job design contributes to the achievement
of organizational objectives, motivation, and employee satisfaction. One of the most well-known
approaches to job design is the Job Characteristics Model (JCM). In the JCM, five core characteristics
are considered: (1) skill variety, (2) task identity, (3) task significance, (4) autonomy, and (5)
feedback.

This study was carried out in M/S S&S POWER SWITCHGEAR EQUIPMENT LTD,
Puducherry. Total no. of workers in the factory was 145 employees. Of the total workers the
required sample size calculated for the project was 130. After distributing the validated
questionnaire to the employees, out of 130 only 122 responses were taken after excluding
incomplete responses. The responses were uploaded in excel sheets and analysis of the responses
was done in SPSS software and the analysis were done.
 LIST OF TABLES

S.NO TITLE PAGE NO.

42
5.1.1 AGE GROUP OF EMPLOYEES

43
5.1.2 MARITAL STATUS

44
5.1.3 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

45
5.1.4 ANNUAL INCOME

46
5.1.5 EXPERIENCE

47
5.1.6 TECHNIQUES

5.2.1 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION AND ANNUAL 48

INCOME CROSSTABULATION

5.2.2 CHI-SQUARE TESTS 48

AGE AND EDUCATION QUALIFICATION 50

5.2.3
CROSSTABULATION
50
5.2.4 CHI-SQUARE TESTS

52
5.3.1 EDUCATION QUALIFICATION AND SKILL VARIETY

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION AND AUTONOMY OF 53

5.3.2
EMPLOYEES AT WORK
54
5.3.3 EXPERIENCE AND ANNUAL INCOME

AGE AND AUTONOMY OF EMPLOYEES AT THEIR 55

5.4.1
WORK
56
5.5.1 CORE CHARACTERISTICS (MIN/MAX)

57
5.5.2 CORE CHARACTERISTICS - MEAN

58
5.2.3 LEVEL OF MPS
 LIST OF CHARTS

S.NO TITLE PAGE NO.

42
5.1.1 AGE
43
5.1.2 MARITAL STATUS
44
5.1.3 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
45
5.1.4 ANNUAL INCOME
46
5.1.5 EXPERIENCE
47
5.1.6 TECHNIQUES OF JOB DESIGN
56
5.5.1 CORE CHARACTERISTICS OF JOB