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To determine:
The types of people who are likely to be satisfied in each area of the company based on motivation and personality and what might need to change to increase employee satisfaction in all areas using concepts from job characteristics theory.
Case Summary: Newskool Grooves is transnational company developing music software. Its founder and CEO is Gerd Finger. The company’s headquarters are in Berlin where new products are developed and organizational strategy is established. The final decisions to hire employees are always taken by Finger and he also put lots of emphasis on independent work styles. Employees want to work at this company because it’s cutting edge and the organization has a much decentralized culture.
Interpretation: Organizations with undefined and flexible organizational designs are called boundary less organizations. Internal and external boundaries of the organizations are eliminated by boundary less organizations. To list out the kind of people who will be motivated and satisfied in boundary less organizations and the practices that can be adopted to improve employee satisfaction.
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