Hovey and Beard Company
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Transcript of Hovey and Beard Company
Brian CohenPaul Jepsen
Kateri NguyenMegan Stiegelmar
Yance Yu
The Hovey and Beard Company manufacture many different type of
wooden toys. The toys begin in the wood stages, they are cut, sanded, and
partially assembled, dipped in shellac and sent to the painting room which is
where this case begins.
Before After
Skill Variety Low Low
Task Identity Moderate Moderate
Task Significance Moderate Moderate
Autonomy Low High
Job Feedback High High
Skill Variety
•The degree to which a job includes a variety of different activities and involves the use of a number of different skills and talents
Before After
Low Low
Task Identity
•The degree to which the job requires completion of a “whole” and identifiable piece of work, one that involves doing a job from beginning to end with a visible outcome.
Before After
Moderate Moderate
Task Significance
•The degree to which the job is important and involves a meaningful contribution to the organization or society in general.
Before After
Moderate Moderate
Autonomy
•The degree to which the job gives the employee substantial freedom, independence, and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures used in carrying it out
Before After
Low High
Job feedback
•The degree to which carrying out the work activities provides direct and clear information to the employee regarding how well the job has been done.
Before After
High High
Job enrichmentIncreases job content by giving workers more responsibility for planning and evaluating duties
Was the learning bonus handled properly in this case? How can its motivational impact be explained? What alternative approaches could have been taken with
similar motivational results
• The learning bonus was not handled properly.
• Loss of morale• Loss of income 6 months into position
• Alternative approaches:– Job enlargement: Increases task variety by
adding new tasks of similar difficulty to a job.– Job rotation: Increases task variety by shifting
workers among jobs involving tasks of similar difficulty.
How do you explain the situation described in the last paragraph of the case? How
could this outcome have been avoided by appropriate
managerial actions?
Superintendent
SupervisorEngineer
•Situation was not handled appropriately. •Superintendent, the Supervisor and the Engineers should have a meeting to set goals for each department in order to obtain the productivity the painters obtained•Frequent meetings to uphold morale