Elena Works in a Data Processing Department for a Large

Multiple Choice

Elena works in a data processing department for a large credit reporting service and is bored. She spends her days inputting an endless stream of monotonous data into much larger data bases. According to the job characteristics model (JCM) , one of the primary reasons for her boredom is ____.

A) a low degree of feedback
B) a high degree of autonomy
C) a low degree of task identity
D) a high degree of task significance
E) a high degree of skill variety