The six critical human requirements for effective work...
Participants are asked to judge their existing work processes and environment by these criteria.
Why the six critical human requirements are so important The higher the quality of worklife the producers of
products or services enjoy, the higher the quality of products or services they produce. Put another way, those who do not enjoy a high quality of worklife transform their dissatisfaction with their work into poor quality of products or services they produce. The current plethora of programs to increase the quality of outputs cannot succeed unless the quality of the input, the work life that went into them is also high. Treating the quality of outputs (products and services) independently of the quality of inputs (worklife) is bound to fail in the long run, if not the short run.
| Elbow Room | Learning | | Variety | Mutual support & respect | Meaningfulness | | Desirable Future |
| | Goals | Feedback | | | Socially Useful | Seeing Whole | |
| Bill | 0 | -1 | -2 | 2 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 |
| Mary | +2 | +2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 |
| Alice | +5 | -5 | -4 | -5 | -4 | -5 | -3 | -5 |
| John | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The first three criteria are rated from -5 (too little) to +5 (too much), with zero being optimal. The following three above are scored from 0 (none) to ten (lots), the highest being optimal.
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