Human Resource Management

Course Code: MGT450

Dr. Imran Shafique

 Lecture Outline

1. Job Design
I. Objectives
II. Job Scope
III. Job Depth
IV. Methods/Techniques
 Job Design

 Definition
 Process of work arrangement (or rearrangement) to reduce or
overcome job dissatisfaction and employee alienation arising from
repetitive and mechanistic tasks.

 Objective
 Reducing dissatisfaction, enhancing motivation and employee
engagement at the workplace
 Job Design – Dimensions

 Job Scope
 Range of activities/duties/responsibilities that an employee carried
out

 Job Depth
 Employee’s freedom to plan & organize his/her own
work, work at his/her won pace

 Job Dissatisfaction
 Tardiness, absenteeism, and sabotage
 Low/High in Scope and Depth

 Example
 Salesman
 Job Design Methods/Techniques

 Job Rotation
 systematic movement of employees from one job to the other. Job
remains unchanged but employees performing them shift from one
job to the other

 Job Enrichment/Enhancement/Vertical Job

Expansion
 adds new sources of job satisfaction by increasing the level of
responsibility of the employee in organization

 Job Enlargement/Horizontal Job Expansion

 Involves the addition of tasks at the same level of skill and
responsibility. It is done to keep workers from getting bored.