JOB REDESIGN AND SCHEDULING

THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL

Skill variety : Job requires a variety of different activities. Task identity : The job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work. Task significance : The job has a substantial impact on the lives or work of other people.

Autonomy : The job provides substantial freedom, independence, etc. Feedback : In the individual obtaining direct and

THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL Critical

Core job dimensions psychological states Experienced meaningfulness of the work Experienced responsibility for outcomes of the work Knowledge of the actual results of the work activities Employee growth- need strength Skill variety Task identity Task significance Autonomy

Personal and work outcomes

High internal work motivation High- quality work performance High satisfaction with the work Low absenteeism and turnover

Feedback

WHAT IS JOBREDESIGN AND SCHEDULING

The three job redesign options are
Job Rotation Job Enlargement Job Enrichment

The three popular scheduling options are

Flextime Job sharing

JOB ROTATION
The Job Rotation means the periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another.Job Rotation has also been adopted by many manufacturing firms as a means of increasing flexibility and avoiding layoffs. The strengths of job rotation are that it reduces boredom.

JOB ENLARGEMENT
Job enlargement involves performing a variety of jobs or operations at the same time. It involves horizontal job loading as compared to vertical one in job enrichment.

ADVANTAGES OF JOB ENLARGEMENT

Variety of tasks Enlarged and Meaningful Work Modules

Optimum Utilisation of Abilities Worker paced Control

Meaningful Feed Back

DISADVANTAGES OF JOB ENLARGEMENT

Productivity may fall in the short run, due to the introduction of the new system. Employee- unions often argue for increased pay.A Some jobs may still be routine and boring even after enlargement.

JOB ENRICHMENT
Job enrichment is a motivational technique which emphasizes the need for and challenging and interesting and interesting work. It refers to vertical expansion of jobs.

ADVANTAGES
It helps in reducing the rates of employee turnover and absenteeism. The enriched job give more job satisfaction to the employees.

Task enforcement is made easy with the help of job enrichment and the skills of workers are increased

DISADVANTAGES
It is a highly costly affair. In the short run job enrichment may have negative effect. In short run productivity is reducing and in the long run there will be increased productivity. Job enrichment is basically limited to the unskilled & semiskilled jobs.

SCHEDULING
Three popular Scheduling options Flextime Job Sharing Telecommuting

FLEXTIME
Flextime are numerous. They include Reduced Absenteeism Increased Productivity Employees can schedule their work hours to align with personal demands, thus reducing tardiness and absences and employees, can adjust their work activities to those hours in which the are individually more productive.

JOB SHARING
A recent work scheduling innovation is job sharing. It allows two or more individuals to split a traditional 40-hour- aweek job. Job sharing increases flexibility.

TELECOMMUTING
It might be close to the ideal job for many people.