Use Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model to discuss the desired job attributes for a start-up high technology company that aims to create a motivating, empowering culture with a high-performing workforce.

What will be an ideal response?


According to Hackman and Oldham, every job has five characteristics that determine how motivating the job is. To create a culture as desired by the company, each role should possess:

1.Skill variety: Employees will likely be required to use a wide range of different skills, 
abilities, or knowledge in their positions because there will likely not be many employees working for the young business. 
2.Task identity: Employees working in app-development are likely to have responsibility 
for end-to-end tasks or work in a team environment rather than being isolated to a single step in the app production process. 
3.Task significance: Employees are likely to be aware of the meaningful impact they 
have on others inside and outside of the organization due to the nature of the product they are developing. 
4.Autonomy: Employees will likely be given the freedom and discretion needed to 
schedule different tasks and decide how to carry them out. 
5.Feedback: Employees will be given clear and direct information on how well he or she 
has performed the job both internally and from external tests of the app's functionality.

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