Question

Rosa, a human resource professional, is redesigning several jobs at the factory where she works. She recognizes that most of the factory workers have little interaction with coworkers during the day. She believes this is a reason for low productivity and performance. She decides to resign the jobs to include more group processes and social interactions. Why

Answer 1

There are three ways in which a manager can redesign an employee's job: job enrichment, job enlargement and job rotation.

Explanation:

There are three ways a manager can redesign an employee's job:

1. job enrichment,
2. job enlargement
3. job rotation.

Job redesign is an technique using which job responsibilities, tasks are reviewed, and are re-allocated among the employees, to improve output. Redesigning jobs can lead to improvements in both productivity and in job satisfaction. of the employees

For example: Samantha is , a customer service representative  at a large call center. She performs the same task of attending phone calls  on a daily basis .This redundancy of task will lead to the reduction in the productivity of Samantha. To increase her productivity the HR plans to redesign her job,the HR might increase or decrease the number of calls she takes each day OR THEY  might plan to give her  training so that she can be moved to a more specialized group, such as tech support or sales,  or the HR  might  change  her role, such as to a supervisory or training position.

This change in the job profile(Job Redesign) of Samantha will lead to an increase in the productivity and motivation.