The SMART Work Design Model

The SMART Work Design Model is one of the world's leading evidence-based frameworks for designing healthy, motivating, and high-performing jobs. Developed by Professor Sharon Parker and colleagues, the model identifies five key work characteristics that influence employee wellbeing, motivation, learning, and performance. In this course, you'll explore each dimension of SMART Work Design and discover how better job design creates healthier people and better organisational outcomes.

Chapter 1. What Is Work Design?

Chapter 2. The Science Behind SMART Work Design

Chapter 3. The SMART Work Design Model

Chapter 4. Stimulating Work

Chapter 5. Mastery

Chapter 6. Agency

Chapter 7. Relational Work

Chapter 8. Tolerable Demands

Chapter 9. Recognising Healthy and Unhealthy Work Design

Chapter 10. Applying SMART Across Different Jobs

Chapter 11. Leadership and Work Design

Chapter 12. Redesigning a Job Using SMART

Conclusion and summary

About this Course

The Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) Model

Applied Learnings

The Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) Model is one of the most influential frameworks for understanding how work affects employee wellbeing, motivation, burnout, and performance. By examining the balance between job demands and job resources, the model explains why some work environments energise employees while others lead to exhaustion. In this course, you'll explore the foundations of the JD-R Model, understand its relationship with the Job Demand–Control Model, and learn how organisations can design healthier and more sustainable work.