This topic is on 'Multitasking is the good use of your time or not'. It also helps to describe the concept of motivation and different job design technique to improve the satisfaction level of employee of the organization.

1. MULTITASKING : A GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME?
MOTIVATION: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATION
PRESENTED BY :
SULAGNA THAKUR (14202237)
PRITISH KUMAR SINHA (14202239)
PINAKI RANJAN BHAKAT (14202238)
KUMAR NISHIKANT (14202240)

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
Multitasking Defined
 Motivating by Job Design
 JCM model
MPS
 Job Redesign
 Alternative Work Arrangements
 Case Facts
 Youth Media Multitasking
 Case Findings
 Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION : MULTITASKING DEFINED
 The simultaneous performance of two or more tasks by a computer’s multiple processors.
 Human have one processor (The Brain). We are not wired to perform
complex task simultaneously.
Impacts of multitasking
 Positive Impacts
 Negative Impacts

4. MOTIVATING BY JOB DESIGN
 The way elements in a job are organized.
Traditional Job design
Taylor’s Scientific Management
 Replacement of Rule of Thumb
 Scientific Selection and Training
 Cooperation of Management and Labour
 Equal Division

5. JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL
 Developed by J. Richard Hackman & Greg Oldham
Skill Variety
Task
Identity
Task
Significance
Feedback
Autonomy
JCM

6. Core Job
Dimensions
Critical
Psychological
States
Personal and
Work
Outcomes
Experienced
meaningfulness
of the work
Experienced
responsibility
for outcomes
of the work
Knowledge of
actual results of
the work activities
High Internal
work motivation
High quality
work performance
High satisfaction
with the work
Low absenteeism
and turnover
Employee Growth-
Need Strength
Skill Variety
Task Identity
Task
significance
Autonomy
Feedback
6
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7. MOTIVATION POTENTIAL SCORE
A predictive index that suggests the motivating potential in a job.

8. TECHNIQUES OF JOB REDESIGN
Job Simplification
Job simplification means variety &
difficulty of tasks performed by a
single person are reduced.
Job Enrichment
More advanced technology
tends to cause Job Enrichment
meaning that the job provides
greater responsibility,
recognition and opportunities
for growth and development.
Job Rotation
Job rotation means moving
employees from job to job to give
them greater variety of task so that
to help preventing boredom.

9. ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS
Especially important for a diverse workforce of dual-earner couples, single parents, and employees
Flextime
Employees work during a common
core time period each day but have
discretion in forming their total
workday from a flexible set of hours
outside the core.
Example of Flextime Time Schedule
Job Sharing
The practice of having two or
more people split a 40-hour-a-week
job.
Approx. 19% of large
organizations now offer Job
sharing.
Telecommuting
Employees do their work at home on
a computer that is linked to their
office.
Categories of Telecommuting Jobs
•Routine information-handling tasks.
•Mobile activities.
•Professional and other knowledge-related
tasks.
caring for a sick or aging relative.

10. CASE FACTS
Multitasking is the characteristics of Millennial generation.
 About 81% of the young people report “Media Multitasking”
 Multitasking illustrates that motivation is not just effort but also the way effort is directed.
 Multitasking makes people more efficient, which is a positive impact.
 According to David Meyer, multitasking results in adverse outcomes beyond inefficiency.
 Absorbs material more superficially
 Damage productivity and social relationship.

11. YOUTH MEDIA MULTITASKING

12. CASE FINDINGS
EFFECTS OF MULTITASKING WHEN TASK ARE COMPLEX
 Risky mixture of brain problems
 Severe Stress
 Rage in adults to learning problems
 Autism-like behavior in children.
 Less Efficient

13. CONCLUSION
“To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither” – Publilius Syrus
Multitasking is a big illusion.
They think they are motivated and productive even when they are not.

14. ANY QUESTIONS