1. Job Design
Pradeep
Singha

2. Job Design
Job design involves conscious efforts to
organize
task, duties and responsibilities in to a unit of
work
to achieve certain objectives. Job design
Easierjob design new jobs than redesign
follows to
existing
analysis.
jobs.

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION
Greater Job Satisfaction
Increased Performance
Reduced Absenteeism & Turnover
Greater Profitability

4. Techniques of Job Design
Individual Design Options Group Design Options
WORK SIMPLIFICATION WORK TEAMS
Large task that is completed by
JOB ROTATION
a group of specific task
Rotating from job to job
Assignments.
within an organization.
JOB ENLARGEMENT
Adding more tasks to the Job Design AUTONOMOUS WORK
job: Horizontal Loading Techniques GROUPS
Work teams are given a goal to
JOB ENRICHMENT achieve and the control over
Making jobs more its accomplishment.
meaningful and
Challenging: Vertical
Loading

5. Factors Affecting Job Design
Organizational Factor
Environmental Factor
Behavioral Factor

6. Organizational Factor
 Work flow
 Ergonomics
 Work practices

7. Environmental Factor
 Employee Abilities and Availability
 Social and Cultural Expectation

8. Behavioral Factor
 Feedback
 Use of abilities
 Variety

9. Common Techniques
Specialization
Job enlargement
Job enrichment
Job rotation

10. Job specialization
 Involves
Breaking jobs into small component parts.
Assigning specialists to do each part.
Found in manufacturing & service industries.
 Advantages  Disadvantages
More efficient  Less flexibility
Lower training costs  Repetitive, boring tasks
People learn jobs more  Meaningless, monotonous
quickly work
Better person/job  High job dissatisfaction
matching  No opportunity to develop
and acquire new skills

11. Job Rotation
Rotating people periodically from job to job
Reduces boredom, increases flexibility
Helps minimize repetitive strain injuries
Can have some process loss

12. 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 relationships
employees put in direct contact with clients

13. Current Trends in Job Design
 Flextime
 Compressed Workweek
 Job Sharing
 Telecommuting

14. CASE

15. Amit’s Duties and Responsibilities
BASIC DUTIES
 Scheduling his sub -
ordinate salesmen for
sales.
 Making Reports of Sales
 Listening to consumer
responses and feedbacks
and forwarding them to the
seniors.

16. New Job Designed
Job Enrichment
Scheduling his sub-ordinate salesmen
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Target was given to him with adequate powers to
achieve it

17. New Job Designed
Job Enlargement
Listening to consumer responses and feedbacks and
forwarding them to the seniors.
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Trained to guide and suggest unsatisfied consumers.

18. Employee Satisfaction is Organization’s
Success