New work situations call for familiar work design methods: Effects of task rotation and how they are mediated in a technology-supported workplace.

ABSTRACT: New digital assistive technologies strive to alleviate the completion of work tasks but thereby often threaten to make jobs increasingly monotonous. To counteract jobs becoming more and more monotonous, task rotation might be an appropriate technology feature. However, it is uncertain whether task rotation has unique positive effects, why it works, and whether there are any boundary conditions. To investigate this, we conducted two experimental vignette studies. In Study 1 (N ₁ = 135), we drew on the job characteristics model and self-determination theory to examine perceived task variety, skill variety, and task identity, and expected satisfaction of the need for competence as mediators of the effect of task rotation on anticipated employee attitudes (job satisfaction, i

SUBMITTER: Mlekus L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9597497 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature