Effective Workforce Development by Antonios Panagiotakopoulos

Author:Antonios Panagiotakopoulos
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000711578
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Job rotation

Job rotation is a process that involves transfers of employees between jobs within an organisation. Many early commentators advocated job rotation as a mechanism to increase employee motivation, because this approach relieved the boredom and fatigue experienced by those engaged in the highly standardised and repetitive jobs characteristic of the mass production paradigm. However, job rotation is also an effective way of developing employee competence, since this facilitates on-the-job learning. Intra-functional rotation within higher levels of organisational hierarchies, for instance, enables employees to gain a deeper understanding of their organisations, and is therefore especially useful in succession planning. Yet intra-functional rotation at lower levels within organisational hierarchies enables employees to learn how to perform a broader range of tasks and functions and thus supports flexible working. Although job rotation offers some scope to enable employees to improve their existing skills, clearly the capacity for organisations to utilise this methodology will depend to a large extent on the nature of their business and the types of jobs that employees do.

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