Suppose you manage a factory that makes wood chairs. For the past several years, your employees have worked in departments that make separate parts of the chairs. In an effort to provide your employees a "tangible outcome to which they can attribute their efforts, you have decided to change your approach and each employee will be responsible for making a complete chair. This action is likely to increase the __________ of your workers' jobs.
A) autonomy
B) skill variety
C) task identity
D) job specificity
E) feedback

Question

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By having each employee responsible for making a complete chair, you increase the task identity of their jobs. Task identity is the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work, which in this case is a complete chair.

Suppose You Manage a Factory That Makes Wood Chairs