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Adding value to your work.

D W Chambers
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Dentists and many staff enjoy characteristics of work associated with high levels of satisfaction and performance. Although value can be added to oral health care professionals' jobs through enlargement, enrichment, rotations, and autonomous work groups, there are limits to these techniques. Controlling work performance by means of rewards is risky. Probably the most effective means of adding value to jobs is through the Quality of Work Life approach, concentrating on job design and placement to make work meaningful and autonomous and to provide feedback.

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D W Chambers. 1998. Adding value to your work.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9697373/

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