Job Design BY Pradeep Singha

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Job Design

PradeepSinghaDayananda Sagar

Business School


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Job design involves conscious efforts toorganizetask, duties and responsibilities in to a unit of

workto achieve certain objectives. Job design

follows jobanalysis.

Easier to design new jobs than redesignexisting

jobs.

Job Design


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OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION

Greater Job Satisfaction

Increased Performance

Reduced Absenteeism & Turnover

Greater Profitability


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Techniques of Job Design

Individual Design Options Group Design Options

WORK SIMPLIFICATION

JOB ROTATION

Rotating from job to job

within an organization.

JOB ENLARGEMENT

Adding more tasks to the

job: Horizontal Loading

JOB ENRICHMENT

Making jobs more

meaningful and

Challenging: Vertical

Loading

WORK TEAMS

Large task that is completed by

a group of specific task

Assignments.

AUTONOMOUS WORK

GROUPS

Work teams are given a goal to

achieve and the control overits accomplishment.

Job DesignTechniques


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Factors Affecting Job Design

Organizational Factor

Environmental Factor

Behavioral Factor
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Organizational Factor

Work flow

Ergonomics

Work practices


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Environmental Factor

Employee Abilities and Availability

Social and Cultural Expectation


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Behavioral Factor

Feedback

Use of abilities

Variety


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Common Techniques

Specialization

Job enlargement

Job enrichment

Job rotation


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Job specialization Involves

Breaking jobs into small component parts.

Assigning specialists to do each part.

Found in manufacturing & service industries.

Advantages

More efficient

Lower training costs

People learn jobs morequickly

Better person/jobmatching

Disadvantages

Less flexibility

Repetitive, boring tasks

Meaningless, monotonouswork

High job dissatisfaction

No opportunity to developand acquire new skills


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Job Rotation

Rotating people periodically from job to jobReduces boredom, increases flexibility

Helps minimize repetitive strain injuries

Can have some process loss
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Job Enrichment Strategies

Empowering employees

giving employees more autonomy

feeling of control and self-efficacy

Forming natural work units

completing an entire task

assigning employees to specific clients

Establishing client relationshipsemployees put in direct contact with clients


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Current Trends in Job Design

Flextime

Compressed Workweek

Job Sharing

Telecommuting


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CASE


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Amits Duties and ResponsibilitiesBASIC DUTIES

Scheduling his sub -ordinate salesmen for

sales.

Making Reports of Sales

Listening to consumerresponses and feedbacks

and forwarding them to theseniors.


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New Job Designed

Job EnrichmentScheduling his sub-ordinate salesmen

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Target was given to him with adequate powers to

achieve it


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New Job DesignedJob Enlargement

Listening to consumer responses and feedbacks andforwarding them to the seniors.

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Trained to guide and suggest unsatisfied consumers.


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Employee Satisfaction is Organizations

Success


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Documents

Job Design BY Pradeep Singha