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Human Resource Management: Course Code: MGT450

This document provides an outline for a lecture on human resource management. Specifically, it discusses job design, including its objectives to reduce job dissatisfaction and alienation. It defines job design and covers key dimensions like job scope, depth, and dissatisfaction. Finally, it presents some common job design methods and techniques such as job rotation, enrichment, and enlargement.

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Human Resource Management: Course Code: MGT450

This document provides an outline for a lecture on human resource management. Specifically, it discusses job design, including its objectives to reduce job dissatisfaction and alienation. It defines job design and covers key dimensions like job scope, depth, and dissatisfaction. Finally, it presents some common job design methods and techniques such as job rotation, enrichment, and enlargement.

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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.

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