Bahir Dar University

College of Business and Economics

Prepared by: Yohanes Getnet

Submitted to: Getnet Almaw (Assi. Prof)

Introduction
Human Resource is the life blood of the organization. Success of organizations mainly depends
on the proper management of people. Generally, now, organizations have realized the
importance of human resources in their organization and try to attract, retain and motivate them
in order to achieve the organizational goals. Some researchers recognized that Job design is an
important factor that makes a significant amount of impact over employee performance. The
article impact of job design on employee performance in peoples bank of ampara district was
written by, Malkanthi and Hussain ali south eastern university of Sri Lanka, Oluvil. The
researchers’ tray to investigate the significant impact of job design on employee performance. So
I would summarize the objective, the central argument, conceptual framework, methodology,
finding, criticism and lessons learned from the article.
Objective of the study
General objective
The objective of the article is to investigate job design significantly relate to employee’s
performance in peoples banks of Ampara district.
Specific objectives
The specific objectives of the article were;
 To find out the effectiveness of employees job design and employees performance.
 To explain how job should be redesign to improve job performance.
The central argument of the article
The central argument of the article is job design and employee performance has strong
positive relation.
The conceptual framework:
The researchers use schematic diagram to show the relationship between job design independent
variable and employee performance the dependent variable.

Job design Employee performance

The major issue discussed with regard to job design in the article:
In the article the researches tray to discussed about job design and employees performance.
Definition of job design in deferent scholars, like Buchanan (1979) Job Design as specifying the
contents or methods of any job in such a way that various requirements of the job holder can be
effectively satisfied. About the two category elements of job design those are, Efficiency
elements include division of labor, standardization and specialization. Behavioral elements
include skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. And also the
researchers’ tray to convey about job performance definition and several criteria becomes needed
in order to evaluate job performance of an employee accurately. Those are trait based, behavior
based and result based.
Methodology:
The researchers used quantitative research approach. The source of data was primary source
which are more reliable and original data collected through handover questioner. Random
sampling procedure was used to determine the sample. The data analyses of the article were both
univariative analysis and bivariative analysis. Under univariative analysis descriptive statistical
techniques were used.
Findings:
The major findings of the paper are there is strong positive relationship between job design and
employee performance. In the data analysis, it was found that job design was moderate and the
employees’ performance was moderate. And also they showed that major factors of job design
are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback as all the factors were
moderate level.
Strength:
 Clear problem area identification.
 Clear statement of the paper (article) objective.
 Use of appropriate research methodology with justification.
 Appropriate formulation of research question and research hypothesis.
 Appropriate formulation of research framework.
 All the findings are drown from the data analysis, all the implication are drown from the
major findings, and all the conclusion are drown from the implications and major
findings. This is one of good research criteria.
 Appropriate citation and referencing allover the paper.
Weakness:
 Sample size determination, there is no justification how they determine the
sample from the total universe
  Every study have limitation and significance but they dose not state the
limitation and the significance of the study.
 Theoretical and empirical review, in a paper work the topic must be defined
theoretically and empirically. But in this study there is no clear Theoretical and
empirical review.
 Recommendation, giving recommendation is the aim most study. But in this
study there is no clear recommendation
Lessons learnt from the article:
I have learnt much more things from the article. I have learnt that there is a presence of strong
positive relationship between job design and employee performance. Major factors of job design
are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback as all the factors were
moderate level.
Suggestions for Further Studies:
This study focused only People’s banks Ampara district in Sri Lanka. This can be extended to
Our country Ethiopia. Further this research studied the impact of job design on employee
performance. Hence, how the other factors such as training and development, rewards, leadership
styles influence on employee performance can be studies in future.