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  title info:
    title: Information technology and task design
    sub title: an examination of the impact of changes in task methods and social information on worker job characteristics, perceptions, attitudes, and performance
  name:
    name part: Beard, Jon Winston.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Griffin, Ricky W.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Courtney, James F.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hellriegel, Don
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Van Fleet, David D.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 305 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: This study examines the impact of changes in the method of task performance and changes in the social cues in and around the job on the perceptions, attitudes, and performance of workers. People react to and form perceptions of their jobs based on the characteristics of the tasks they must perform. The Job Characteristics Theory suggests that, as the measures of specific characteristic variables of a job increase, the workers' motivation, satisfaction, and performance will increase. The changes examined in this study compared manual and computerized tasks. In addition, workers form perceptions of their jobs based on the information they receive about the jobs and tasks from the social environment. The Social Information Processing Model explains this process. Neither model, however, is able to capture the full range of perception and attitude change. A combination of the two approaches has provided a stronger approach. A laboratory study was conducted to compare the effects of two methods of task performance -- manual and computerized -- and two types of social cues -- positive and negative --on the perceptions, attitudes, and performance of the subjects. Significant effects were found for both changes in the method of task performance and in changes in social information. A greater number of significant effects were found for the social cues. These results are consistent with other research. The implications of these findings are discussed. Additional discussion examines future research directions on the impact of technology change and social information change on worker perceptions.
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Management."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1991
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Work design
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Job satisfaction
  subject:
    topic: Major management
  classification: 85.05
  classification: 54.80
  classification: 05.00
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 911203
    record change date: 20200904152541.0
    record identifier: in00001049900
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng