Keywords
Productivity, Intervention, Job Performance, Teams, Job Characterisitics Model, ProMES
Abstract
The current study examines the effects of the five core job characteristics (skill variety, task significance, task identity, autonomy, and feedback) proposed by Hackman-Oldham (1974) at the team level by investigating whether the model variables are related to the effectiveness of a motivationally-based team-level productivity enhancement intervention. Previous literature has almost exclusively focused on the effects of these job characteristics at the individual level and their direct relationships with employee attitudes and subjective measures of performance. This thesis aims to further the job characteristics literature by exploring the effects of the characteristics at the team level, as well as the moderating effect of the team construct of value congruence, while simultaneously exploring boundary conditions of the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES) developed by Pritchard (1990). Hypotheses postulated a negative relationship between the characteristics and intervention effectiveness; such that effectiveness is negatively impacted when the characteristics already exist at high levels. Results, though non-significant, are tenatively suggestive of this counter-intuitive negative relationship between four of the characteristics and intervention effectiveness. Value congruence between team leaders and members was not a significant moderator of the relationship between the characteristics and effectiveness. Results suggest that a more powerful study to further parse out these relationships would be valuable. iii
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Graduation Date
2008
Advisor
Pritchard, Robert
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree Program
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0002040
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002040
Language
English
Release Date
June 2008
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Weaver, Sallie, "Characteristics For Success: Predicting Intervention Effectiveness With The Job Characteristics Model" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3657.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/3657