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    Job enlargement involves increasing the scope or variety of tasks in a job to reduce boredom and increase satisfaction. There are three main ways this is done: job rotation, which switches between similar tasks; job loading, which increases workload through redundancy; and job enrichment, which provides new responsibilities and challenges to better motivate employees long-term. While companies may claim to use job enrichment, they often rely on the less engaging approaches of rotation or loading.

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    Job enlargement involves increasing the scope or variety of tasks in a job to reduce boredom and increase satisfaction. There are three main ways this is done: job rotation, which switches between similar tasks; job loading, which increases workload through redundancy; and job enrichment, which provides new responsibilities and challenges to better motivate employees long-term. While companies may claim to use job enrichment, they often rely on the less engaging approaches of rotation or loading.

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    Job Enlargement: By: Nicolas Jamieson

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    Gabriel Banks
    Job enlargement involves increasing the scope or variety of tasks in a job to reduce boredom and increase satisfaction. There are three main ways this is done: job rotation, which switches between similar tasks; job loading, which increases workload through redundancy; and job enrichment, which provides new responsibilities and challenges to better motivate employees long-term. While companies may claim to use job enrichment, they often rely on the less engaging approaches of rotation or loading.

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    Job Enlargement

    By: Nicolas Jamieson

    Definition

    Job enlargement is a general term for anything that increases the scope (overall impression of the business) of a job.

    Different ways
    There are three ways it comes about:
    Job rotation Job loading Job enrichment

    Job rotation
    Increasing a workers activities by switching between tasks of a similar level of difficulty. This does not increase the challenge, but may reduce the boredom, of a job

    Job loading
    Increasing workload, often a result of redundancies. It may mean having to do more of the same, but often entail one or two extra activities that have to be taken on.

    Job enrichment
    This enlargement of the scope of a job involves extra responsibilities and challenges as well as extra activities/ workload. Of these, only job enrichment is likely to provide long-term job satisfaction. Employers may like to use the term job enrichment, but often they are really carrying out job rotation or job loading.

    Conclusion
    In conclusion job enlargement is used in big companies which need to produce large amount of goods, using repetition. For this is needed high amount of unskilled employees, these employees often get bored so they must be motivated with new different tasks.

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