Retention, Motivation, and Engagement Practice Test

Skill variety is the degree to which a job requires using a range of different activities and skills. When a role involves many different tasks rather than repeating the same one, people stay more engaged because they’re applying a wider set of capabilities. This variety helps make the work feel meaningful, which boosts intrinsic motivation. In the Job Characteristics Model, this is one of the five core dimensions that shape how motivating a job is. The other dimensions focus on completing a whole piece of work (task identity), the impact of the work on others (task significance), the degree of freedom to decide how to do the work (autonomy), and receiving feedback about performance. Since the question describes having many different activities, skill variety is the best fit.