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Not What It Was and Not What It Will Be: The Future of Job Design Research

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2010

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Oldham, Greg R. and J. Richard Hackman. 2010. Not what it was and not what it will be: the future of job design research. Journal of Organizational Behavior 31(2-3): 463–479.

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This summary commentary explores the likely future directions of research and theory on the design of organizational work. We give special attention to the social aspects of contemporary work, the process by which jobholders craft their own jobs, the changing contexts within which work is performed, and the increasing prominence of work that is performed by teams rather than individuals

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