Required

• Chapter 10 in Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management
• Bergsten, E. L., Mathiassen, S. E., Larsson, J., & Kwak, L. (2018). Implementation of an ergonomics intervention in a Swedish flight baggage handling company—Aprocess evaluation. Plos ONE, 13(3), 1-17. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191760
• Oldham, G. R., & Fried, Y. (2016). Job design research and theory: Past, present and future. Organizational Behavior andHuman Decision Processes, 136, 20-35. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.05.002
• Parker, S. K., Morgeson, F. P., & Johns, G. (2017). One hundred years of work design research: Lookingback and looking forward. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(3), 403-420. doi:10.1037/apl0000106.Retrieved from https://msu.edu/~morgeson/parker_morgeson_johns_2017.pdf
• Cramer, J., & Krueger, A. B. (2016). Disruptive change in the taxi business: The case of Uber†. American Economic Review, 106(5),177-182. doi:10.1257/aer.p20161002

Recommended

• Higgins, N. A., Talone, A. B., Fraulini, N. W., & Smither, J. A. (2017). Human factors and ergonomics assessment of food pantry work: A case study. Work, 56(3),455-462. doi:10.3233/WOR-172511
• Carney, L. J. (2015). Major League Baseball’s ‘foul ball’: Why Minor League Baseball players are not exempt employeesunder the Fair Labor Standards Act. Journal of Corporation Law, 41(1), 283-312.
• Dubal, V. B. (2017). The drive to precarity: a political history of work, regulation, & labor advocacy in SanFrancisco’s taxi & Uber economies. Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, 38(1),73-135. doi:10.15779/Z38KW57H5S

Job Design

Select one key concepts from the list below for your Discussion response. Be sure to identify the name of the organization.

• How did your selected organization implement labor-planningpolicies? What issues confronted the leadership team? Be specific aboutlabor policies they implemented.
• Describe the major issues in job design in the context of yourorganization. How do these issues decrease the performance andproductivity of the worker for your selected organization?
• Defend the use the tools of methods analysis in the currentworkplace. How does this analysis benefit the efficiency for yourselected organization?
• Should every organization throughout the entire world use the samelabor standards? Why or why not? Give specific labor policy examples asyou explain your rationale.

Be sure to post an initial, about 250-word substantive response byThursday at 11:59 p.m. MT, and respond to two or more peers withsubstantive responses by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. A substantive initialpost responds to the topics presented completely and/or asks athoughtful question pertaining to the topic. Two substantive peerresponses, of 100 words minimum each, ask a thoughtful questionpertaining to the topic and/or answers a question (in detail) posted byanother student or the instructor.