From the course: Human Resources: Job Structure and Design
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Job enlargement
From the course: Human Resources: Job Structure and Design
Job enlargement
- Job enlargement often gets a bad rap in the job design world, because it involves adding more tasks to a job without giving the employee more authority. On its surface, it seems more hurtful to job satisfaction than helpful. If you think about it though, you engage in job enlargement all the time. Was a new step added to a process? Someone has to take it on. Did you just bring on a new hire? Someone has to train him. Did the CEO ask for a new type of report? Someone has to put it together. But as with all job design techniques, it's important to take a methodical approach to job enlargement. Let me show you how the principles of job design can help with job enlargement. Start by reviewing all of the new job tasks and making informed choices about who should do what. This critical first step will ensure task variety and keep people from feeling overworked. Take the new hire, for example. It's easy to just say Sally, you take on training this person, they start Monday. But what if…
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