Job enlargement - Techniques for designing jobs - Manu Melwin Joy

Job enlargementTechniques for designing jobs

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Manu Melwin JoyAssistant Professor

Ilahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – [email protected]

Job enlargement• Job enlargement expands a

job horizontally. It increases

job scope; that is, it

increases the number of

different operations

required in a job and the

frequency with which the

job cycle is repeated.

Job enlargement

• By increasing the number of

tasks an individual

performs, job enlargement

increases the job scope, or

job diversity.

Job enlargement• Instead of only sorting the

incoming mail by department, for instance, a mail sorter's job could be enlarged to include physically delivering the mail to the various departments or running outgoing letters through the postage meter.

Job enlargement• Efforts at job enlargement

have met with less than

enthusiastic results. As one

employee who experienced

such a redesign on his job

remarked, "Before I had one

lousy job. Now, through

enlargement, I have three!"

Job enlargement• So while job enlargement

attacks the lack of

diversity in

overspecialized jobs, it has

done little to provide

challenge or

meaningfulness to a

worker's activities.