Q. How Environmental factors affecting job design?
Environmental abilities and availabilities: efficiency consideration must be balanced against the abilities and availabilities of the people who are to do the work.
Social and cultural expectations: literacy, knowledge and awareness among the workers have improved considerable so also their expectations from jobs. Hence jobs must be designed to meet the expectations of workers. When designing jobs for the international operations, uniform designs are almost certain to neglect national and cultural differences. Hours of work, holidays, vacations, rest, breaks, religious benefits, management, styles and work sophistication and attitudes are just some of the predictable differences that can affect the design of jobs across the international borders. Failure to consider three social expectations can create dissatisfaction, low motivation, hard to fill job opening and a low quality of the work life, especially when foreign nations are involved in the home country or overseas.