Employment enrichment views the total work environment confronting employees as a system consisting of two overlapping areas: worker-job and worker-organization subsystems. Job enrichment has improved the worker-job subsystem. The focus of this article is on methods of improving the worker-organization relationship. (Author/JB)

Job design or redesign (intended to create a more meaningful working environment that meets the needs of people as well as the organization) is discussed in terms of job rotation, work simplification, job enlargement, job enrichment, and other concepts relating to successfully redesigning other's jobs as part of effective management. (TA)

Factors that supervisors consider important to their jobs were analyzed from a series of surveys with more than 300 supervisors over a three-year period. Results show some regional differences and attitude changes, but interesting work was consistently rated most important to the supervisors. (MF)

A model was proposed which considered individual differences and work environment in the design of management-by-objectives (MBO) programs. The field-testing of the model indicated that consideration must be given not only to the feasibility of the task goals and their applicability to the larger organizational objectives, but also to employee…

Discusses some elements which contribute to the rising concern for occupational mental health and directions that can be taken by firms, companies, etc., to provide health-promoting work environments for their employees. (TA)