Job rotation is an organizational development technique that involves moving employees between jobs to assess their skills and improve job fit. It aims to reduce monotony, facilitate succession planning, and enhance employee satisfaction while also having some disadvantages like being time-consuming and potentially stressful. Successful job rotation requires clear objectives, employee consent, and feedback mechanisms to gauge effectiveness.

1. JOB ROTATION

2. MEANING
• Job rotation is a well known organizational development technique
• Job rotation is the practice of moving employees between jobs in
organization.
• It is a pre planned approach with an objective to test the employee
skills and competencies inorder to place him or her at the right place.

3. Objectives
• Reduces monotony of the job
• Succession planning
• Establishes right employee job fit
• Exposes employees to all verticals of the organization
• Testing employee skills and competencies
• Develops a wider range of work experience

4. Essentials for successful job rotation
• Clear purpose and objective
• Training employees
• Monitor performance
• Feed back

5. Planning and implementing a successful job
rotation
• Identify whether employees would benefit out of the job rotation
process
• Employees consent is the most important thing
• Allow the employees to decide and volunteer for job rotation
• Let them understand the benefits and importance of job rotation
• The duration of job rotation can be between 3 to maximum 6 monthsdo
not expect employees to learn and upgrade their skills overnight.
• Take their feedback once they have completed the process of job
rotation

6. Benefits of job rotation
• Helps employer explore the hidden talent
• Identifies knowledge, skill and attitude
• Aligns competencies with requirements
• Capable human workforce.
• Employee replacement
• Helps individual or employees explore their interest
• High satisfaction and low attrition

7. Disadvantages of job rotation
• Time consuming
• Time to acquaint
• Stress and anxiety
• Waste of efforts

8. Job roatation in nursing
• It helps nurses to achieve higher performance, allowing continuous
growth and development of new knowledge and skills and increasing
the quality of care.