When a manager uses __ to increase motivation, the manager is seeking to change job characteristics, such as the skill involved and the meaningfulness of the work, in such a way that both employee satisfaction and productivity will improve.

Answer: Work redesign

Explanation:

Work/job redesign is the process in which reviewing and reevaluation of current function and working of organization is done to ensure that this functioning is keeping up with achieving the goal of the organization.

If any kind of fault is found in operations then changes are made accordingly and reconstruction of duties, tasks, etc takes place so that work can be made encouraging, interesting, and inspiring and renewal in job field can be made for improvement

According to the question, Manager of a company uses the technique of work redesign for improving productivity and encouraging employees.