The Process of Job Redesign: Signposts from a Theoretical Orphanage?

Abstract

This paper argues that conceptual frameworks of the process of job redesign are needed, for both practical and theoretical purposes. In particular, they would enable change agents to systematically document and analyze their experiences, as well as encourage the generation of theory-based propositions about the change process. A tentative framework is presented in an attempt to satisfy three principal criteria. It comprises a number of elements which are interrelated using the notion of cycles, and expanded to include some perspectives on the process of change. Use of the framework is then illustrated through consideration of a detailed case study.

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