Purpose – The paper aims to identify the key issues of job design research and practice to motivate employees' performance. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual model of Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics has been adopted to motivate employees' performance. Findings – The...

The paper aims to throw light on High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) spanning the management discourse and augmenting people-oriented approach, resulting in sterling performance. The authors contend that the best way to reap the benefits of HR practices is to consider employees as valued...