2016 Annual Conference

Job Characteristics Model is a framework that guides employers on how to evaluate employees' satisfaction from the task that they do at work. It comprises of five characteristics that are generally needed to evaluate job scope. These five characteristics deals with cognitive, affect, and psycho-motor domain of learning.

This topic is about organizational psychology and communication in the workplace. The Job Characteristics Model is a guideline that can help employers, employees, supervisors, managers, administrators, training and development personnel, and even educators to manage subordinates', employees' and students' intrinsic motivation. These people are the target audience of this presentation. Additionally, this presentation also targets researchers who are researching about motivation, feedback, autonomy, and lifelong learners. Most importantly, this topic is targeted at Career and Technical Educators and PhD students who wants to learn more about task meaningfulness, performance effectiveness, and job responsibility.

The Job Characteristics Model is one of the guidelines/frameworks that can be used to understand job satisfaction from the job itself. One of its importances is that it focuses on the job based on the job description and how an individual will reflect on his or her strength and weaknesses on task assigned to him or her. It also emphasizes more on intrinsic motivation of a person from the task that he or she does for his or her own potential development. This session can create an impact if members of the audience come out with their own understanding of certain concept that will be introduced in this session. The innovation from the Job Characteristics Model is that it can be applied to other settings rather than the workplace, for example educational settings.