J. Richard Hackman

Habitual routines in task-performing groups

The Social Psychology of Organizations.

Motivation through the design of work: test of a theory

Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey.

The properties and uses of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) are described. The JDS is intended (a) to diagnose existing jobs to determine if (and how) they might be redesigned to...

Employee reactions to job characteristics.

Group Tasks, Group Interaction Process, and Group Performance Effectiveness: A Review and Proposed Integration

On the coming demise of job enrichment

Job enrichment rapidly is becoming one of the most widely used behavioral science strategies for organizational change. And there is scattered but compelling evidence that, unde...