Essential Skills - National Adult Literacy Database

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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
What is Job Design?
• Job design is simply the way we organize
work, or how we create what is called a job.
• Traditionally, jobs are designed by the task
to be done. We try to match a task to a job,
it is very much a one to one alignment.
Traditional Job Design Approach
• Management Determined Process: Breaking work down
into its simple elements
– training of workers is simplified
– workers are easily substituted
– supervision is easier
– Easier to track costs
• Workers: will act like rational economic beings, set a
course to maximize their self interest and act accordingly
Dumbing down the workforce
Traditional Job Design Approach
Management
Min pay for max output
vs.
employee (union)
Max pay for min effort
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Re-thinking the human potential
• Humans and many so-called “lower” animals do a
great job of interacting with a complex
environment,
• We perceive situations, we recognize patterns
quickly, and we learn, in real time, via hundreds of
thousands of processors (neurons) working in
parallel.
• No one yet has thought of a way to get a computer
to problem solve the way a brain does.
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Innate Intelligence
• Volumes of research supports the fact that
primates have highly developed intelligence
allowing them to communicate, and learn
through a problem -solving approach.
• On top of the primate chain are the best
communicators, the best learners and the
best problem-solvers: homo-sapiens
Problem Solving Challenge
DECIPHER THE HIDDEN MESSAGE
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