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MULTITASKING : A GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME?
MOTIVATION: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATION
PRESENTED BY :
SULAGNA THAKUR (14202237)
PRITISH KUMAR SINHA (14202239)
PINAKI RANJAN BHAKAT (14202238)
KUMAR NISHIKANT (14202240)
CONTENTS Introduction
Multitasking Defined
Motivating by Job Design
JCM model
MPS
Job Redesign
Alternative Work Arrangements
Case Facts
Youth Media Multitasking
Case Findings
Conclusion
INTRODUCTION : MULTITASKING DEFINED
The simultaneous performance of two or more tasks by a computer’s multiple processors.
Human have one processor (The Brain). We are not wired to perform
complex task simultaneously.
Impacts of multitasking
Positive Impacts
Negative Impacts
MOTIVATING BY JOB DESIGN
The way elements in a job are organized.
Traditional Job design
Taylor’s Scientific Management
Replacement of Rule of Thumb
Scientific Selection and Training
Cooperation of Management and Labour
Equal Division
JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL
Developed by J. Richard Hackman & Greg Oldham
Skill Variety
Task Identity
Task Significance
Autonomy
Feedback
JCM
Core Job Dimensions
Critical Psychological
States
Personal and Work
Outcomes
Experienced
meaningfulness
of the work
Experienced
responsibility
for outcomes
of the work
Knowledge of
actual results of
the work activities
High Internal
work motivation
High quality
work performance
High satisfaction
with the work
Low absenteeism
and turnover
Employee Growth-
Need Strength
Skill Variety
Task Identity
Task
significance
Autonomy
Feedback
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TECHNIQUES OF JOB REDESIGN
Job Simplification
Job simplification means variety & difficulty of tasks performed by a
single person are reduced.
Job Enrichment
More advanced technology tends to cause Job Enrichment meaning that the job provides
greater responsibility, recognition and opportunities for growth and development.
Job Rotation
Job rotation means moving employees from job to job to give them greater variety of task so that
to help preventing boredom.
ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS
FlextimeEmployees work during a common core time period each day but have
discretion in forming their total workday from a flexible set of hours
outside the core.
Example of Flextime Time Schedule
Job Sharing
The practice of having two or more people split a 40-hour-a-
week job.
Approx. 19% of large organizations now offer Job
sharing.
Telecommuting
Employees do their work at home on a computer that is linked to their
office.
Categories of Telecommuting Jobs
•Routine information-handling tasks.
•Mobile activities.
•Professional and other knowledge-related tasks.
Especially important for a diverse workforce of dual-earner couples, single parents, and employees
caring for a sick or aging relative.
CASE FACTS
Multitasking is the characteristics of Millennial generation.
About 81% of the young people report “Media Multitasking”
Multitasking illustrates that motivation is not just effort but also the way effort is directed.
Multitasking makes people more efficient, which is a positive impact.
According to David Meyer, multitasking results in adverse outcomes beyond inefficiency.
Absorbs material more superficially
Damage productivity and social relationship.
CASE FINDINGS EFFECTS OF MULTITASKING WHEN TASK ARE COMPLEX
Risky mixture of brain problems
Severe Stress
Rage in adults to learning problems
Autism-like behavior in children.
Less Efficient
CONCLUSION
“To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither” – Publilius Syrus
Multitasking is a big illusion.
They think they are motivated and productive even when they are not.