1. JOB DESIGN
JEETHU.P.THILAK
3rd SEM IF

2. DEFINITION
 “JOB DESIGN” involves systematic
attempts to organize tasks, duties, and
responsibilities in to a unit of work to
achieve certain “OBJECTIVES”
 It is the process by which Managers
decide individual job tasks and authority.

3. OBJECTIVE OF THE ORGANISATION
To Maximize profit
Create Job satisfaction
Reduced the absenteeism and
turnover
Increase the performance

4. Job Designers focused on
 What will be done in a job.
 Who will do the Job.
 How the Job will be done.
 Where the Job will be done.

5. JOB DESIGN
DECISIONS

6. TRENDS IN JOB DESIGN
 Quality control as part of the worker’s job.
 Cross-training workers to perform multi -skilled jobs.
 Employee involvement and team approaches to
designing and organizing work.
 Extensive use of temporary workers.
 Organizational commitment to providing meaningful and
rewarding jobs for all employees

7. JOB DESIGN TECHNIQUES
 Individual Job design techniques.
 Group job design techniques.

8. INDIVIDUAL JOB DESIGN
 Job Rotation.
 Job Enlargement
 Job Enrichment

9. JOB ROTATION
 Shifting of cross trained workers to other
tasks
 Aimed to meet the overall Equal at work
Programme objective of attempting to
develop new and more inclusive models of
recruitment and in work progression

10. JOB ENLARGEMENT
 Increasing the scope of job through
extending the range of its job duties and
responsibilities.
 Associated with the design of jobs to
reduce employee dissatisfaction.

11. JOB ENRICHMENT
 Increasing the degree of responsibility a
worker has over a job
 Motivate the employee by giving them the
opportunity to use the range of their
abilities.

12. GROUP JOB DESIGN
TECHNIQUES
 Work teams
 Autonomous work groups

13. WORK TEAMS
 Effective work teams magnify the
accomplishment of individual employees.
 Cross-functional, Multi skilled, and self
directed employees.

14. AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUP
 Autonomous work group encouraged to
manage its own work and working
practices.