task identity

a motivating characteristic of tasks specified in the job-characteristics model of J. Richard Hackman and U.S. organizational behaviorist Greg R. Oldham (1947– ). A job is high in task identity if it entails responsibility for a complete and identifiable piece of work (see natural work module), as in writing a proposal or planning and developing a new software program from start to finish. Compare task significance.

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October 18th 2024

cofigurative culture

a society or culture in which people learn chiefly from other people in the same age group, so that, for example, children learn mostly from children and young adults from young adults. Compare postfigurative culture; prefigurative culture. [coined by U.S. anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978)]