Thorsrud six characteristics of a good job
Thorsrud, “Policy making as a learning process”, 1972
- The need for the content of a job to be reasonably demanding of the worker in terms other than sheer endurance, and to provide a minimum of variety (not necessarily novelty)
- The need to be able to learn on the job and go on learning
- The need for some minimal area of decision-making the individual can call their own
- The need for the individual to be able to relate what they do and what they produce to their social circle
- The need to feel that the job leads to some sort of desirable future (not necessarily promotion)