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TOPIC UNBALANCED OR DYSFUNCTIONAL JOB STRUCTURE

TOPIC UNBALANCED OR DYSFUNCTIONAL JOB STRUCTURE . Unbalanced or dysfunctional w ork places stressful , counterproductive opposites on employees due to: Contrasting or conflicting job skills Job duties or skills that clash with the employee’s personal temperament

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TOPIC UNBALANCED OR DYSFUNCTIONAL JOB STRUCTURE

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  1. TOPIC UNBALANCED OR DYSFUNCTIONAL JOB STRUCTURE

  2. Unbalanced or dysfunctional work places stressful, counterproductive opposites on employees due to: • Contrasting or conflicting job skills Job duties or skills that clash with the employee’s personal temperament • Role-conflict jobs duties • Lack or proper job training or pro development

  3. Technical-judgmental responsibilities • Responsible for serving clients both inside & outside the org • Both empowering & controlling others • Formal leadership + informal influence

  4. Doing your own work + the duties of someone just laid-off in a cost-cutting org move • In order to keep your job, taking professional actions which you consider to be exploitative: Invading the privacy of others; Participating in unpopular org practices; Helping your org maximize massive unfair profits

  5. Managing people older, smarter, or more skilled than you • Working with competitors on joint venture projects • Introverted sales reps; extraverted desk-work analysts • Being the financial controller in an artistic org. • Idealists working in Social Darwinist orgs

  6. Technical-judgmental responsibilities • Responsible for serving clients both inside & outside the org • Both empowering & controlling others • Formal leadership + informal influence

  7. ORGDRAMA

  8. ERIC HANSON APPware software customer rep for software developers

  9. MIS client rep dealing with multiple APPwareCONs: proprietary software adaptations; troubleshooting beta version software with programmers; sales packages to design & negotiate = tech development + marketing

  10. “I like both programming & MIS, but not marketing that much.” “But most of the marketing requires tech savvy.” “I live in two different professional worlds which have different cultures and languages.”

  11. POSSIBLE REMEDIES • Virtual team members can shuffle some job responsibilities for a better personal-professional balance • Create a new, higher value-added job for yourself that is more P/P balanced • Volunteer for jobs & duties that fit your P/P balance better than the person currently performing them.

  12. Seek company training for new job duties you would like to perform • Switch from a job description to a contributions description • Perform dysfunctional job duties using a different approach more compatible to your P/P mix

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