A strategy for improving worker satisfaction and job attitudes in a repetitive industrial task: application of production standards and performance feedback.
Worker satisfaction improved significantly as a consequence of the provision of the assigned and participative standards with performance feedback in a repetitive industrial production task. The maximum improvement in worker satisfaction was found for the participative standard and feedback condition. Only this condition had a significant positive effect on worker job attitudes. Monetary incentive, when provided with an assigned or participative standard with feedback, added no incremental worker satisfaction or job attitudes gain. The participative standard with feedback condition emerges as the optimum strategy for improving worker satisfaction and job attitudes in a repetitive industrial production task.
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 33, Al-Khod, Postal Code 123, Sultanate of Oman. ashraf1@squ.edu.om
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002170:Canada; D004526:Efficiency; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D006804:Ergonomics; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D005396:Fish Products; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis