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It is estimated that on an average people spend about 35% of their waking

time on their jobs. Therefore, the nature of their jobs will have an important

role in the satisfactions that they experience. Satisfactions may come from the

comfort of doing the job without stress. Or it may come from the stress of the

challenge in the job. The contents of the job can be designed in such a way as

to provide for the needs of the employee. If managements can pay some

attention to the content of the jobs and design them in such a way that people

enjoy doing them, then they will succeed in making their employees happy and

motivated on their jobs.

D. Empowerment

a) The worker works well when he wants to.

b) Research studies have revealed that a challenging job is considered

to be more meaningful and therefore, more motivating to

employees, than a routine job.

c) The resource available in people, is their knowledge, their skills,

their insights, their creativity.

d) Choices are exercised by people not because they are told to do so

but because they want to do so