“Organization Development & Change

· Please read the case study entitled as “Job Design at Pepperdine University.” available in your textbook “Organization Development & Change” 10th edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:

Assignment Question(s):

· Q.1 Describe the culture of Pepperdine University within which an individual job is enriched. Support your answer using two examples from the case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)

· Q.2 Based on your understanding of the individual-level diagnosing of job designs, discuss and evaluate each of the following components for the MSOD program’s administrator as proposed by Pepperdine University:

-Skill variety (Lo 2.5)

-Task identity (Lo 2.5)

-Task significance (Lo 2.5)

-Autonomy (Lo 2.5)

-Feedback (Lo 2.5)

· Q.3 Explain why it is important for an individual job design to be congruent with the larger organization design. Support your answer using one example from this case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)