A Contingency Look at Job Design

Guest Robert , “Job Enlargement–A Revolution in Job Design,” Personnel Administration (January 1957), pp. 9–16.

Herzberg Frederick , The Motivation to Work (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1959); and Herzberg's “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?”, Harvard Business Review (Jan.-Feb. 1968), pp. 53–62.

“The Need for Productivity Growth: The Work of the National Commission on Productivity” by Greenberg Leon , Staff Director of the Commission, presented before the National Association of Business Economists, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1971.

See, for example, Davis Louis E. Werling Richard , “Job Design Factors,” in Occupational Psychology (April 1960), pp. 109–132; Myers M. Scott , “Who Are Your Motivated Workers?” Harvard Business Review (Jan.-Feb., 1964), pp. 73–78; and Walker Charles Guest Robert , The Man on the Assembly Line (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952).

See, for example, Kilbridge Maurice D. , “Turnover, Absence, and Transfer Rates as Indicators of Employee Dissatisfaction with Repetitive Work,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (October 1961), pp. 21–32; Kilbridge's “Do Workers Prefer Larger Jobs?”, Personnel (September 1960), pp. 45–48; and Katzell , “Job Satisfaction, Job Performance and Situational Characteristics,” Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 45 (1961), pp. 65–72.

Walker Charles R. , “The Problem of the Repetitive Job,” Harvard Business Review (May 1950), pp. 54–58.

See “Sabotage at Lordstown?” Time (February 7, 1972), p. 76.

Hulin Charles Blood Milton , “Job Enlargement, Individual Differences and Worker Responses,” Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 69, No. 1 (1968), pp. 41–55.

Turner A. N. Lawrence P. R. , Industrial Jobs and the Worker (Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1965); also, Blauner Robert , Alienation and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).

Kaplan Roy , “Job Enrichment,” Personnel Journal (October 1969), pp. 791–798.

For a preliminary report of this study, see Morse John J. Lorsch Jay W. , “Beyond Theory Y,” Harvard Business Review (May-June 1970), pp. 61–68. A major publication is in preparation.

Atkinson J. W. , An Introduction to Motivation (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1964).

Porter L. W. Lawler E. E. , Managerial Attitudes and Performance (Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1968).

White Robert W. , “Ego and Reality in Psychoanalytic Theory,” Psychological Issues, Vol. 3, No. 3 (New York: International Universities Press, 1963).