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How can work itself become a source of motivation? This entry explains how skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback can strengthen employees’ sense of meaning, responsibility, and understanding of their results. It connects the theory with practical approaches to job design, including enrichment, rotation, and cross-training, while considering employee capabilities, preferences, and working conditions. For HR professionals and organizational leaders, the entry offers a foundation for diagnosing motivation problems and redesigning roles, alongside a critical assessment of the model’s limitations and newer approaches to work design.