Reintegrating job design and career theory: Creating not just good jobs but smart jobs explores the relationship between how a job is designed and its effect on a person's overall career development. This is accomplished by discussing Career Theory and its relationship to Job Design, but also by reversing the thought process and exploring the relationship between Job Design and Career Theory. Finally the authors use their research and recommend a course of action: the creation of jobs that are both designed to provide personal fulfillment but also aid in the development of a long-term career. The authors begin the article with a review of the relevant research that has already been conducted on the subject with a view towards how the fields of Job Design and Career Theory came to be. They also...

A "job" is related to the work that a person is doing while a "career" relates to their work over a period of time.
Next the authors discuss how Career Theory, and research into the field, can contribute to the improvement of the field of Job Design. Firstly the authors assert that success in a career can be related to the satisfaction one obtains from performing their job; if their job is designed properly. When one's measure of success is dependent upon personal, or psychological standards rather than objective standards imposed by society in general, job satisfaction, closely related to job design, becomes an important factor in success. Next…