HCM 433 MANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.pdf

Two commonly used practical methods of putting all the different theories of motivation into
action are job enrichment and job enlargement. Research and analyses of motivation point to the
importance of making jobs challenging and meaningful. This applies to managers and nonmanagers.
3.2.1 Job Enrichment
This is basically where the job is expended on a vertical plane. It rears to the practice of giving
workers the opportunity to have greater responsibility for their work and to take greater control
over how to do their jobs. In other words, job enrichment entails the attempt to build into jobs a
higher sense of challenge and achievement such that, the employee whose job is been enriched is
allowed to work on more levels or different aspect of the same basic job-ideally, the person is
allowed to see the work through from start to finish. So if a job is extended to include other duties,
possible of a higher level with more responsibility the job is enriched.
Generally speaking, a job may enriched by giving it variety. But it may also be enriched by:
i. Giving workers more freedom in deciding about such things as work methods, sequence
and pace or letting them make decision about accepting or rejecting materials.
ii. Encouraging participation of subordinates and interaction between workers.
iii. Giving workers a feeling of personal responsibility for their tasks
iv. Taking steps to make sure that people can see how their task contributes to a finished
product and the welfare of an enterprise.
v. Giving people feedback on their job per romance, preferably before their supervisor gets it.
vi. Involving workers in analysis and change of physical aspects of the work environment,
such as layout of office or plant, temperature, lighting and cleanliness.
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In summary the process of job enrichment is a conscious effort to implement some assumptions
about motivation to work by including in a job factors which Herzberg has termed motivators. The
approach gives an individual more scope, more autonomy, more responsibility, more variety and
seek to satisfy an individual’s higher order needs.
Advantages
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