EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF CORE JOB DIMENSION ATTRIBUTES ON PERSONAL AND WORK OUTCOMES IN NIGERIA INDUSTRIES

A STUDY OF SELECTED MULTINATIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN THE SOUTH EAST

Abstract

This paper presents a psychological approach to job design in evaluating the effect of core job dimensions on personal and work outcomes. The main objective of the research is to educate how the core job dimensions characteristics can be used to guide Managers in evaluating jobs and help them to predict an employee's motivation, work performance and job satisfaction. The descriptive survey research design was used to demonstrate how the variables were manipulated to generate the necessary primary data. The stratified sampling procedure was used to select representative samples from the group for study. Structured questionnaire was found necessary to answering research questions and relevant hypothesis. The job characteristics model was adopted as general framework of the theory. Generated result data was analysed with a predictive index model known as motivating potential score (MPS). The study reveals that job scores that are high on motivating potentials indicates that motivation, performance and satisfaction will be positively affected, while the likelihood of absenteeism and turnover is lessened. The paper therefore recommends that all managers should better evaluate their designed jobs with the core job dimensions attribute to better predict employee's motivation, work performance and satisfaction.