"Build Your Skills". Motivating Background Do you think that, if employers could make work more like play, employees would be as enthusiastic about their jobs as they are about what they do in their leisure time? Lets see where this idea might take us. Task After reading the Characteristics of PLAY, place a in column one for those characteristics you have experienced in your leisure time activities. Likewise, check column one on the next page for those Characteristics of WORK you have experienced in any of the jobs youve held."

Answer The question "Critical Thinking Questions

1. What prevents managers from making work more like play? 2. Are these forces real or imagined? 3. What would be the likely (positive and negative) results of making work more like play? 4. Could others in the organization accept such creative behaviors?"

Build Your Skills Motivating Background Do you think that, if employers could make work more like play, employees would be as enthusiastic about their jobs as they are about what they do in their leisure time? Let's see where this idea might take us. Task After reading the "Characteristics of PLAY," place a in column one for those characteristics you have experienced in your leisure time activities. Likewise, check column one on the next page for those "Characteristics of WORK" you have experienced in any of the jobs you ve held. \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline All That Apply & Characteristics of WORK \\ \hline & 1. Job enrichment, job enlargement, or job rotation. \\ & 2. Job sharing. \\ 3. Flextime, telecommuting. \\ 4. Encourage and implement employee suggestions. \\ 5. Assignment of challenging projects. \\ 6. Employee-of-the-month awards, press releases, employee newsletter announcements. \\ 7. Production goals with competition to see which team does best. \\ 8. Employee softball or bowling teams. \\ 9. Profit sharing; peer performance appraisals. \\ 10. Use tactful and consistent discipline. \end{tabular} Critical Thinking Questions What prevents managers from making work more like play_- Are these forces_real or imagined? What would be the likely (positive and negative) results of making work more like play? 1. Could others in the organization accept such creative behaviors? Build Your Skills Motivating Background Do you think that, if employers could make work more like play, employees would be as enthusiastic about their jobs as they are about what they do in their leisure time? Let's see where this idea might take us. Task After reading the "Characteristics of PLAY," place a in column one for those characteristics you have experienced in your leisure time activities. Likewise, check column one on the next page for those "Characteristics of WORK" you have experienced in any of the jobs you ve held. \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline All That Apply & Characteristics of WORK \\ \hline & 1. Job enrichment, job enlargement, or job rotation. \\ & 2. Job sharing. \\ 3. Flextime, telecommuting. \\ 4. Encourage and implement employee suggestions. \\ 5. Assignment of challenging projects. \\ 6. Employee-of-the-month awards, press releases, employee newsletter announcements. \\ 7. Production goals with competition to see which team does best. \\ 8. Employee softball or bowling teams. \\ 9. Profit sharing; peer performance appraisals. \\ 10. Use tactful and consistent discipline. \end{tabular} Critical Thinking Questions What prevents managers from making work more like play_- Are these forces_real or imagined? What would be the likely (positive and negative) results of making work more like play? 1. Could others in the organization accept such creative behaviors