2.

4 Setting up a Structure
in Practice

IT5206 Professional Practice 2023

2. Structure and Management of IT Organization
Example
• Considerthe case of a medium-sized UK-based
company providing bespoke software development and
consultancy in the UK and operating in several other
western European countries through subsidiary
companies there.
Job Design
• Setting up an organisational structure implies designing
jobs.
• Assoon as a one-person organisation becomes a two-
person organisation, it has to decide who does what; in
other words it has to design jobs.
Job Rotation
• rotating
staff through a series of jobs, is the most
obvious way of preventing employees from becoming
bored with a very narrow and specialised task.
Job Enlargement
• redesign of a job so that it includes more tasks which
require essentially the same level of skill and
responsibility.
Job Enrichment
• redesigning jobs so that the amount of responsibility,
discretion and control required of the employee is
increased
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Summary

• Job Design
• Job Rotation
• Job Enlargement
• Job Enrichment

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