THIS WORK IS FROM CHAPTER 4: DEFINING, ANALYZING, AND DESIGNING THE WORK. Please read Chapter 4 and create a thread to answer the following questions (one thread).

1. How is the increasingly mobile workforce changing how, when, where, and what work is done? What opportunities and challenges face managers and mobile workers?

2. What are some of the pitfalls of employee teams? How can these be managed or lessened?

3. In your own words explain the importance of the job analysis process to human resources management. What are some of the uses for the outcome of job analysis?

4. In Toolkit 4.3 of the text, three companies briefly described how they have successfully empowered their employees. Research another organization that has done this and explain how this organization has done this. You must reference correctly.

5. What is the job characteristics model and how could it help a manager?