Question

Why is job design important in an organization?

Answer 1

Specifying the responsibilities and concepts of any job in a way that major requirements of the employee can be met (Buchanan, 1979). These requirements can be social, personal, technological and organizational desires. Satisfied employees become more motivated to contribute more to the achievement of the company’s goals and hence their own performance is also increased. The design of the job includes a variety of factors like tasks involved, knowledge, social and contextual characteristics as well (Morgenson & Humphrey, 2006). According to Belias, D., & Sklikas, D. (2013), a job should be designed keeping employee’s expectations in mind. Job rotation help employees to explore various departments and flexibility to move from one task to another in a given period of time and increasing their productivity, job enrichment helps build the recognition, responsibility and stimulated the work and job enlargement to incorporate different tasks and help employee increase their learnings.
Job design has always played a vital role and one of the most effective tools in maximizing the performance of the employees. A well-designed job design will help increasing employee involvement and satisfaction and motivates them to perform well by giving their best to their work. It helps employees to become highly productive and increases their loyalty towards the organization as well. Designing an effective job design helps bringing the involvement of an employee in his work-related activities which helps in forecasting the employee output, departmental productivity and company’s success (Bates, 2004; Harter, 2002; Baumruk, 2004).

Answer 2

job design is a core function of human resource management which help in satisfying the organisationals requirements as well personal requirements of employees.