Lernmaterialien für Arbeits- & Organisationspsychologie an der Universität Hamburg

Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) a questionnaire that measures core job characteristics

Job Rotation the systematic movement of workers from one type of task to another to alleviate boredom and monotony (as well as training workers on different tasks)

Performance Criteria measures used to determine successful and unsuccessful job performance

Employee Training planned organizational efforts to help employees learn job-related knowledge, skills, and other characteristics

Facet Approach views job satisfaction as made up of individual elements, or facets

Organizational Commitment a worker’s feelings and attitudes about the entire work organization

Test Utility the value of a screening test in determining important outcomes, such as dollars gained by the company through its use

Snap Judgment arriving at a premature, early overall evaluation of an applicant in a hiring interview

Individual Methods performance appraisal methods that evaluate an employee by himself or herself, without explicit reference to other workers

Inputs elements that a worker invests in a job, such as experience and effort

Work Overload a common source of stress resulting when a job requires excessive speed, output, or concentration