Get the Book

Here at My Organisational Bahviour we want to try and provide as much up-to-date information on the subject of Organisational Behaviour as we can. However, there is nothing better than having a book to sit down in a quiet place and read. We recommend the following books.


Organizational Behaviour (Buchanan and Huczynski)

Management and Organisational Behaviour (Mullins)



Job Design in Organisations

What is Job Design?

Job design:  the process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs

Bratton (2010: 498)

Job redesign: collective name given to techniques designed to increase one or more of the variety, autonomy and completeness of a person’s work tasks

Arnold (2010: 704)

Job characteristics model:  a job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties

Bratton (2010: 498)