Cambios en las tareas y su repercusión en la satisfacción laboralun estudio en empresas de automoción
- Urién Angulo, M. Begoña
- Osca Segovia, Amparo
ISSN: 0213-4748, 1579-3680
Year of publication: 2001
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 315-330
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Social Psychology, Revista de Psicología Social
Abstract
Work groups are implemented to meet the new challenges within which companies are currently faced by increasing employees´ participation and autonomy. One of the main issues is the type of tasks that workers perform in this new group-based work structure (Goodman, 1986; Guzzo y Shea, 1992; Tannenbaum, Salas y Cannon-Bowers, 1996). This study has two aims. First, to analyse variations in the tasks operators perform. Our second objective is to check to what extent the tasks are associated with job satisfaction and job interest. Our findings confirm that work groups have resulted in changes in tasks and, in some cases, work loads. We have found a relation between some tasks (tasks with tools, continuous improvement tasks and accuracy tasks) and job satisfaction and job interest