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On 11 May 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from Job design to Work design. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Requested move 11 May 2021

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 07:24, 28 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Job design → Work design – Wikipedia's precision convention states that a title should "unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that." Several prominent authors in the subject field have argued that "job design" is too narrow of a term and have opted for for term "work design" instead, as it acknowledges both the job (i.e. an employees' prescribed technical tasks) as well as employee engagement in emergent, social, and self-initiated activities within flexible roles (see Parker, 2004; Parker & Wall, 1998; Morgeson & Humphrey, 2006). Literature written in the last 2 decades rarely refers to the topic as "job design" for this reason. As "job design" could be considered a lower-order component of "work design", I would argue that the less precise, broader term should be used as the article title. Regardless, a terminology/usage section could be written to clear up distinctions between work/job/task design for readers. Fowira (talk) 16:04, 11 May 2021 (UTC) —Relisting. ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 16:05, 18 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

This should probably be discussed before moving. While there are slightly more sources that call it "work design" (12 vs 10), and the "work design" ones are slightly newer (average publication date of 2008 vs 2002), neither of those show a strong enough preference to make this move non-controversial. --Ahecht (TALK
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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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