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    Job Design Optimization Tool

    The free, online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) can be used to design, or test the design of, any job in any organization. Use the tool with the... View Details

    • December 2016
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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    Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-110, December 2016.
    • July – August 2005
    • Article

    Designing High-Performance Jobs

    By: Robert Simons
    Keywords: Performance; Jobs and Positions; Design
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    Simons, Robert. "Designing High-Performance Jobs." Harvard Business Review 83, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2005).
    • 1997
    • Chapter

    Organization Design and Job Characteristics

    By: D. T. Hall and M. H. Bazerman
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Job Design and Levels
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    Hall, D. T., and M. H. Bazerman. "Organization Design and Job Characteristics." In Teaching Well and Liking It: Motivating Faculty to Teach Effectively, edited by J. L. Bess. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
    • Apr 12 2019
    • Interview

    Understanding the Job Design Optimization Tool

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Job Design and Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence from a Hospital Setting

    By: Susanna Gallani and Jacob Riegler
    This study examines the relationship between job design imbalance and workers’ well-being. We build on Simons (2005) framework for the design of high-performing jobs and develop a survey instrument to capture workers’ perceptions of their job design and work... View Details
    Keywords: Well-being; Job Design and Levels; Working Conditions; Perception; Work-Life Balance; Health Industry
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    Gallani, Susanna, and Jacob Riegler. "Job Design and Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence from a Hospital Setting." Working Paper, January 2023.
    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Customer Experience and Service Design

    By: Uday S. Karmarkar and Uma R. Karmarkar
    While services already dominate economic activity in all major economies in the world, there has been curiously little investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the... View Details
    Keywords: Service Design; Service Management; Product Design; Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Service Industry
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    Karmarkar, Uday S., and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Customer Experience and Service Design." Chap. 7 in Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? edited by Enzo Baglieri and Uday Karmarkar, 109–130. Springer, 2014.
    • June 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Google to Alphabet: Two Job Opportunities

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    This is the teaching note for "Google to Alphabet: Two Job Opportunities" HBS No.116-046 The case describes two job postings for positions at Google. The first job posting is for a Software Engineer in the Google Maps unit and the second job posting is for an Account... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Span Of Support; Management Control Systems; Entrepreneurial Gap; Motivation; Job Design; Strategy; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Jobs and Positions; Technology Industry
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    Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "Google to Alphabet: Two Job Opportunities." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 117-066, June 2017.
    • 19 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
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    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
    This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Jobs and Positions
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    Coles, Peter A., John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried. "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 187–206.
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
    This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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    Coles, Peter A., John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried. "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-096, May 2010.
    • December 1982
    • Supplement

    New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company, Assignment

    By: Richard E. Walton
    Keywords: Job Design and Levels; Telecommunications Industry
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    Walton, Richard E. "New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company, Assignment." Harvard Business School Supplement 483-075, December 1982.
    • December 1982
    • Case

    New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (A)

    By: Richard E. Walton
    Keywords: Information Technology; Job Design and Levels; Human Resources; Management; Telecommunications Industry
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    Walton, Richard E. "New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 483-073, December 1982.
    • December 1982
    • Supplement

    New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (B)

    By: Richard E. Walton
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Job Design and Levels; Telecommunications Industry
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    Walton, Richard E. "New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 483-074, December 1982.
    • June 2003
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    Make v. Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

    By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard
    Keywords: Assets; Ownership; Jobs and Positions; Design; Transportation Industry
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    Baker, George P., and Thomas Hubbard. "Make v. Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information." American Economic Review 93, no. 3 (June 2003).
    • 2002
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

    By: George P. Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard
    Keywords: Truck Transportation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ownership; Transportation Industry
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    Baker, George P., and Thomas N. Hubbard. "Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information." January 2002.
    • 2000
    • Other Paper

    Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information

    By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard
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    Baker, George P., and Thomas Hubbard. "Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information."
    • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    IBM: Design Thinking

    By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
    This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Units; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Adaptation; Adoption; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    Datar, Srikant M., Amram Migdal, and Paul Hamilton. "IBM: Design Thinking." Harvard Business School Case 121-007, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
    • 24 Sep 2019
    • Podcast

    39. Shaping the Work: Design and Development Through the Lens of Jobs Theory

    This week on The Disruptive Voice, Shaye Roseman, a former Research Associate at The Forum for Growth & Innovation and a current MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, is joined in the studio by Bob Moesta and Ryan Singer. Bob is a regular on the podcast and is a... View Details
    • December 1984
    • Teaching Note

    New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (A) and (B), Teaching Note

    By: Michael Beer
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Job Design and Levels; Telecommunications Industry
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    Beer, Michael. "New Technology and Job Design in a Phone Company (A) and (B), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 485-018, December 1984.
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