Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Motivation Potential of a Job – A model 
 
Oldham and Hackman (1975) devised a formula for identifying 
five factors collectively referred to as the Core Job Dimensions or 
characteristics. They developed a mathematical index describing the 
degree to which a job is designed so as to motivate people, as suggested 
by the jobs characteristics model. It is computed based on employees’ 
responses to a questionnaire called by the two social scientists as the Job 
Diagnostic Survey (JDS). 
The dimensions are as follows