The choice of various job design approaches depends on the trade-off between the effectiveness of jobs and the efficiency with which the jobs are performed.

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Although the motivational and mechanistic approaches to job design do work against one another somewhat, at the same time there is not a tight, one-on-one correspondence between the two. Thus, not all efficiency-producing changes result in dissatisfying work, and not all changes that promote satisfaction create inevitable inefficiencies.

The Choice of Various Job Design Approaches Depends on the Trade-Off