Suppose you were on a tour of a Ford plant in Detroit, and you asked an assembly line worker, "What happens to the part you assemble? If the worker answered, "The part goes into the transmission of a Ford Taurus, which is a vital part of the working of the Taurus, one of Ford's finest family automobiles, you could infer that the worker has a fairly high degree of
A) task identity.
B) skill variety.
C) autonomy.
D) job specificity.
E) feedback.

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Task identity is high when an employee can identify a complete or whole piece of work with a visible outcome, as in this case where the worker knows exactly how their part contributes to the final product.

Suppose You Were on a Tour of a Ford Plant