Changing Less-Preferred Duties to More-Preferred: A Potential Strategy for Improving Supervisor Work Enjoyment

Autor/inn/en	Green, Carolyn W.; Reid, Dennis H.; Passante, Susan; Canipe, Vicki
Titel	Changing Less-Preferred Duties to More-Preferred: A Potential Strategy for Improving Supervisor Work Enjoyment
Quelle	In: Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 28 (2008) 2, S.90-109 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0160-8061
Schlagwörter	Quality of Working Life; Supervisors; Job Satisfaction; Human Services; Job Analysis; Intervention; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsqualität; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Humanitäre Hilfe; Arbeitsanalyse; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	We evaluated a strategy for making highly nonpreferred work duties more preferred as a potential means of enhancing work enjoyment among supervisors in a human service setting. Repeated preference ratings and rankings were completed by 4 supervisors during baseline to identify their most disliked work tasks. These tasks were then altered by soliciting each supervisor's opinion regarding why the respective task was so disliked and what could be done to make the task more preferable, removing disliked stimuli associated with the tasks, and adding liked stimuli during completion of the tasks. Following the task alterations, ratings of task likeability increased for all 4 supervisors. Preference rankings of target tasks also increased, including from rankings as among the least preferred tasks to among the most preferred tasks. All supervisors rated the task-alteration process as making their quality of work life better, and all chose to continue the intervention. These results occurred without any observed decrease in work quality. Results are discussed regarding the potential contribution of behavioral interventions with subjective concepts, such as enjoyment, that are viewed as important by the general populace. However, qualifications with relying on verbal reports also are noted. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10