Reintegrating job design and career theory: creating not just good jobs but smart jobs

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(2010), "Reintegrating job design and career theory: creating not just good jobs but smart jobs", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 24 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2010.08124fad.002

Reintegrating job design and career theory: creating not just good jobs but smart jobs

Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 24, Issue 6

Hall D.T. and , Las Heras M.Journal of Organizational Behaviour, March 2010, Volume 31 Issue 2, Start page: 448, No. of pages: 15

The terms jobs and careers have recently been prominent in the headlines and everyday conversations during this time of economic distress conversations. However, now is an excellent moment to “tighten the belt”, to “press the reset button”; to find fundamentally new ways of working, to get the best return from all resources. This paper generates new ideas for redesigning jobs and careers and to make them at once more productive, more fulfilling, and more learning-inducing to the holder. To do this, we will discuss both “imports and exports” between job design and career theory. As one of our major suggestions, we introduce and advocate for smart jobs: jobs that can stimulate learning, growth, and employability on the part of the incumbent. This discussion is centered on two central questions: what can job design contribute to our understanding of careers; and what can career theory and research contribute to job design. Let us consider the nature of jobs and careers, and their common heritage in the management literature. Article type: Research paper ISSN: 0894-3796 Reference: 39AP179

Keywords: Career management, Job design, Job satisfaction, Learning