In the accounting department at Wysong Manufacturing, employees are shifted monthly to different jobs. For example, an employee will work in Accounts Receivable in January, in Accounts Payable during the month of February, and in Payroll during the month of March. What job design technique does this best illustrate?

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Dandy

30 November, 19:23

In the accounting department at Wysong Manufacturing, employees are shifted monthly to different jobs. For example, an employee will work in Accounts Receivable in January, in Accounts Payable during the month of February, and in Payroll during the month of March. What job design technique does this best illustrate?

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Carleigh Fuentes · Answer 1

Job rotation

Explanation:

Job rotation is a job design technique carried out in organizations in which workers are being roatated/shifted to various departments/segments of the organization in order to get them acquainted to the varying departments in the organization with their respective responsibilities associated, thus ensuring a flexibility of employee input&designation.

More importantly, it used to decipher or determine the strengths and weaknesses of the various employees, in order to ascertain their respective fits in the work area and departments they function or performly optimally.

It is also used as means to relieve stress and bedroom, because as humans, we tend to get easily exhausted or dissatisfied with a constant job done repitively without a little element of variation. Thus, job rotation steers in workers a spirit of commitment.

Finally, job rotation making employees being acquainted with their various departments&designations brings about a spirit of oneness and unity, which in turn leads to effective productivity.