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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
Conclusion
• The lack of skill, or knowledge in society is
not an issue of ABILITY, it is an issue of
• MOTIVATION and OPPORTUNITY
How should we design jobs?
• By considering the skills sets and not the tasks.
• Jobs differ mostly in the knowledge and context
components, not the core essential skills.
• Approaching job design in this manner we learn
that the job of a:
“mechanic, machinist, carpenter and welder are
:more similar that different”, .
• Machinist
• Mechanic
•Welder
• Carpenter
Common skills
Skills
manual dexterity
spacial reasoning
numeracy
problem-solving
document literacy
understanding of basic laws of physics
Proficiency is a function of experience, and experience is a
function of the amount of time spent problem solving in the tasks
of these trades.
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Job Design Ingredient #1
• Do not design jobs narrowly. Design them
broadly in both the scope of job tasks
(breadth), and the degree of problem-solving
& decision making (job- enrichment).
Job Design Ingredient #2
• Human capability and cognitive fitness requires a
motivator (stimulus) to maintain its currency.
Without a motivation (desire, reason ) to use the
skills, the skills will be lost (atrophy)
• In the case of the lemurs, the motivator was
survival.
• In the case of humans the motivator will be a
range of items but common to all will be:
acceptance & social inclusion, reward & recognition
Job Design Ingredient #3
• Team environment (design the work to be
performed in groups, communities)
• Humans are social animals who have
adapted by working in groups which allows
them the best means to learn, and problem
solve.
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