The Uphill Struggle for Job Enrichment

Hackman J. Richard , “On the Coming Demise of Job Enrichment,” in Cass Zimmer (eds.), Man and Work in Society (New York: Van Nostrand, 1975).

See for example Ford R. , “Motivation Through the Work Itself,” excerpt in Maher J. R. (ed.), New Perspectives On Job Enrichment (New York: Van Nostrand, 1971), p. 214.

Ibid.

See for example Guest and Fatchett's discussion of work restriction as an important dimension of “participation” in Worker Participation: Individual Control and Performance (London: Garden Press, 1974), pp. 96ff.

For an insightful and quite early understanding of modern worker “indocility,” see Ortega Jose y Gasset , The Revolt of the Masses (New York: New American Library, 1962), p. 47.

Guest Fatchett , op. cit.

Smith H. R. , “The Half-Loaf of Job Enrichment,” Personnel (March-April 1976).

Mosse C. , The Ancient World of Work (London: Chatto and Windus, 1961), p. 1.

“Job Enrichment: Another Part of the Forest,” Industrial Relations Research Association, Proceedings (1972), pp. 154–59.

“Job Enrichment, Individual Differences, and Worker Responses,” Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 69 (1969). See also Reif Luthans , “Does Job Enrichment Really Pay Off?” California Management Review, Vol. XV, No. 1 (1972).

“What's Wrong With Work in America: A Review Essay,” Monthly Labor Review (March 1973).

Lawrence Paul R. , “Individual Differences in the World of Work,” in Cass Zimmer , op. cit., pp. 19–29.

Kahn , “In Search of the Hawthorne Effect,” in Cass Zimmer , op. cit., p. 59.

Banfield Edward , The Unheavenly City (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), p. 1.

Allport Gordon , Becoming (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955).

Gomberg William , “Job Satisfaction: Sorting Out The Nonsense,” AFL-CIO American Federationist (June 1973).