Job engineering focuses on designing jobs to clearly define tasks, workflows, performance standards, and responsibilities. It also considers the workplace layout and interactions between employees and machines. Effective job engineering ensures employees understand their roles and have the tools, information, and ability to provide feedback to improve work processes. Job enlargement expands existing jobs by increasing tasks and responsibilities, providing more variety and meaningful work to potentially motivate employees, though it also increases training costs and could initially lower productivity.

1. JOB ENGINEERING

2. Job Engineering focuses on
the task to be performed,
methods to be used,
workflows among employees,
Layout of the workplace,
Performance standards,
Interdependencies among people and
machines

3. Job engineering subject to the
following rules of work design
The end product/output of the work is
clearly defined
The steps/task to be performed to
achieve the required end
product/output are clearly defined

4. The employees know and understand
their responsibility starts and finishes
in the work process
The tools, facilities and information
needed to perform the work are readily
available and fully understood by the
employees
There is a process where by the employees
can suggest possible improvements in the
work design and exercise initiative in

5. JOB ENLARGEMENT
Job enlargement refers to enlarging the
range of tasks in a job to make it more
broad based. It focuses on enlarging jobs
by increasing tasks and responsibilities.
It involves expansions of the scope and
width of the job by means of a
horizontal loading of certain closely
related operations

6. JOB ENLARGEMENT can ‘motivate’
an individual due to …
Task Variety
Meaningful work Models
Ability Utilization
Work-paced control
Performance feedback

7. DISADVANTAGES
Training cost is high
Additional training is required
Breaking up of the existing production
line
Productivity may fall during the
introduction stage
Increasing the work load

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