IND 4622 - Organization and Job Design

• Explain the theories associated with organization and job design
• Apply the job design theories and analytical methods to redesign a job and/or an organization
• Conduct a detailed job analysis
• Compare and contrast how different leadership skills and other organizational management approaches impact team/group performance
• Explain how organizational culture impacts employee morale and performance
• Explain the impact of motivation and satisfaction on performance
• Describe why and how the design of work is important to individuals and society
• Describe the components of a work system
• Describe how work stressors impact human health
• Describe why systems thinking is necessary to shift workplaces toward health
• Identify a job’s (and/or organization’s) strengths and put forward ideas for preserving them
• Identify a job’s (and/or organization’s) weaknesses and put forward ideas for improving them
• Analyze a job using an empathetic approach that promotes employee health
• Consider the other voices that would need to be included for meaningful changes to be made in a work system
• Participate in respectful and empathetic professional conversations about work’s importance, impact, and design
• Use systems thinking to understand the level of problem/solution is being discussed

• Basic knowledge and understanding of human factors engineering including the systems approach to solving problems

• Professional discourse and insights
• An overview of organizational management theories
• Systems thinking
• Job design theories
• Employee motivation
• Teamwork and participation
• Healthy work
• Meeting people’s needs
• Reducing the risk of harm
• Stress/strain
• Job analysis process
• Job design via case studies
• Employer/employee ethics