Core Job Characteristics at JCM Corp. (Scenario)
JCM Corporation's management believes their employees could be more motivated by their jobs. The jobs were recently enlarged and some improvements in motivation have been observed.
-To further enhance the jobs at JCM,managers divided the tasks into jobs that allowed employees to use a collection of skills and talents.These changes describe which core dimension of the job characteristics model?

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The description of the scenario suggests that the managers at JCM corporation have divided the tasks into jobs that allow employees to use a collection of skills and talents. This indicates that the managers have increased the skill variety of the jobs, which is one of the five core dimensions of the job characteristics model. Skill variety refers to the degree to which a job requires a variety of activities that involve different skills and talents. Thus, the best choice is A) skill variety.