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The design of a job has a great impact on whether or not the job itself is motivating. One of the characteristics of a job design is skill variety, which is the extent to which a job requires a worker to use a broad range of skills and talents to perform the job successfully. What is true about skill variety?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation – know the difference between being motivated by the task itself versus by rewards or punishments • Skill variety as a core job characteristic in job design theory (think about whether people like using many skills or repeating one simple task) • How job characteristics (like skill variety) typically affect a person’s internal sense of interest and satisfaction in the work

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• Ask yourself: If a job lets you use many of your abilities instead of doing the exact same thing all day, how does that usually affect how interesting or meaningful the job feels? • Is skill variety more likely to change how you feel about the work itself (inside you) or how you feel about pay, bonuses, and external rewards? • Which answer choices connect skill variety specifically to internal enjoyment or meaning, and which connect it more to outside rewards?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choices mention intrinsic motivation and which mention extrinsic motivation – separate them into two groups before deciding. • Decide whether more skill variety would normally make a job feel more or less interesting and personally fulfilling. • Eliminate any option where the direction (greater variety → higher/lower motivation) does not match how people usually react to repetitive vs. varied tasks.

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