RESEARCH NOTES. EFFECTS OF WORK REDESIGN ON EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES, AND BEHAVIORS: A LONG-TERM INVESTIGATION.

The work of Hackman and his associates stimulated current interest in work redesign (Hackman & Lawler, 1971; Hackman & Oldham, 1976, 1980). Drawing from earlier work by Turner and Lawrence (1965), Hackman argued that the motivating potential of jobs can be best represented by a number of task dimensions. The dimensions most commonly described are task variety, autonomy, feedback, identity, and significance. The presumption is that if a job has...