Job Related Concepts¶
Job Enrichment:¶
Job Enrichment is a process of redesigning a job. This has the objective of motivating employees. Instead of making the employees to work towards greater specialization, job enrichment introduces more complexity and depth to the job. Planning and decision-making opportunities are provided to employees in job enrichment. It is a vertical expansion of jobs, unlike horizontal in job enlargement
Job Enrichment means redesigning jobs in a way that increases
the opportunities for the worker to experience feelings of responsibility, achievement, growth,
and recognition
Job Rotation¶
This involves the shifting of people from one job to another job periodically. This prevents monotony and avoids stagnation. Whenever there is shortage of labour, this aspect helps the organization to maintain productivity of the organization at a particular level. When there is a labour shortage, job rotation helps in filling the shortage to some extent. This will be a medicine for employee fatigue, as employee moves from job to job. Pain, misery, and disabling injuries emerging from repetitive motion tasks can be reduced significantly through job rotation.
Job Enlargement¶
Job enlargement is a concept which explains the process of combining two or more specialized tasks in a work flow sequence into one single job. This process gives some relief to the employees. Job enlargement changes the job profile by including additional tasks. It may save some cost and a moderate degree of complexity can be brought into the job. It horizontally increases the number of tasks or activities. Management will have a perception that job enlargement will increase job satisfaction and productivity.
Job enlargement can be understood by citing an example. Supposing a worker is working on designing pictures with more colours to print on a saree. If he is asked to design more pictures with more colours, he takes interest and works on different designs with different colours. This makes the employee to work on varied activities and make him more active.
Job enlargement has both advantages and disadvantages. Managements have resorted to this technique while designing jobs, particularly for routine type of jobs. This technique has proved successful in certain of the workplaces
Flexi Timing:¶
Flexi timing, short for flexible timing, is a work arrangement that allows employees to choose their start and end times within a specified range. This approach recognizes that different employees have varying personal commitments and peak productivity times. Flexi timing promotes work-life balance and can lead to higher job satisfaction and employee morale. However, it usually requires clear communication and coordination to ensure that team collaboration and business operations are not disrupted.