Title: How Do You Apply Job Redesign To Your Own Business or To Your Workplace

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Title: How do you apply Job Redesign to your own business or to your workplace
Name: Nancy Gupta (2021439)
University Canada West
Subject: ORGB-601-07
Course Name: MBA (Direct)
Instructor Name: Patrick Cheng
Due Date: 22nd November 2020

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How do you apply Job Redesign to your own business or to your workplace?
Job redesign helps the different stakeholders in multiple ways such as improving productivity
and increases employee morale and job satisfaction. It involves changes in work, responsibility
and duties.
Specific job duties require skill-set and multiple hours to complete the task assigned. Sometimes,
repetitive work leads to fatigue and tiredness results in a loss in production and employee
morale. Employers and employees both are joining hands together in order to achieve the targets
like Introduction of employee-friendly work policies to ensure smooth flow of operations at the
workplace and low staff turnaround.
To understand the process of Job redesign, let me share my experience from my previous job in a
textile company that involved different segments such as spinning, weaving and manufacturing
garments. The job duties varied from persons to persons and departments to departments such as
Production head, Finance Manager in the manufacturing work and Customer representative,
Store Manager, Inventory control specialist, Cashier in the retail outlets.
FLEXITIME- It means Flexible working hours for a particular job. Organization introduce
flexible timing in which employees work for a fixed number of hours in a week, but the working
hours may vary.
At my workplace, in various departments, there were data entry operators or other clerical
positions that have flexible working hours. This method was beneficial to limited positions only
because these operators did not require to deal with external stakeholders, and their work did not
need the involvement of any other officials.
This policy did not affect the work of the company, and employees can utilize their time in order
to complete their official duties as well as personal household chores. Moreover, this leads to
increased productivity, reduce overtime expenses and absenteeism.
JOB ROTATION- It is the process in which the periodic shifting of one employee from one
task to another with the same skill at the same organization. In the retail outlets of our company,
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there are different job positions, where handling the same task for numerous hours lead to
monotony and tiredness. In order to eliminate the boredom and increase the efficiency,
responsibilities of a cashier are also handled by customer representative and store management is
done by Inventory control specialist and vice versa.
Furthermore, it enabled the staff members to do customization in order to fulfil the task and
complete the requirement of customers.
TELECOMMUTING- It is working from home on specific days from an office computer.
Nowadays, various services sectors use this alternative to save office costs. In my company,
working in specific departments is programmed through the internet and local area networks. For
instance, representatives of the sales and marketing area resolve the customer queries over the
phone and the same is done from the virtual office. In addition to this, attorneys and counsels
work from their residential places as a majority of work involves drafting and vetting of legal
documents.
RELATIONAL JOB DESIGN- This view of job design shifts the spotlight from one employee
to those whose lives are affected by the job that the employee performs. It is the way through
which employees connect morally or emotionally with the beneficiaries of their work.
In my workplace, the initiative of the public relations department is highly applauded by senior
management for spending the funds for the benefits of society. Their work generally includes
programs for promoting education, preventive healthcare, building homes and shelters for people
below the poverty line.
This initiative of department let the management introduce the fixed amount of expenditure in
the annual budget of the company for upliftment and betterment of society. Thus, it leads the
individuals of the public relation department in increased job performance.
JOB SHARING- This is the practice of splitting the job between two or more persons. At the
same time, some labour trade unions have opposed this practice because of the loss of a job.
However, specific organizations have implemented this method as it reduces the pressure on the
individuals to complete the assigned duties.

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For instance, production and finishing departments in my textile company have the workforce for
multiple shifts, and their work is divided among the different individuals. It is beneficial for both
employers and employees. As the former can use the fresh talents in the workforce and latter
includes the single parent, retires who may not be able to work full time.
Conclusion: In the end we can say that job redesign is necessary for working effectively in
organization. It is convenient and beneficial for both employer and employees. Job redesigning
can be done with the help of job characteristics model because it helps in identifying the skill
variety, task significance, task variety, autonomy and feedback required for particular task and
department in the organization.

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References:
Langton, N., Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. (2019). Organizational behaviour: Concepts,
controversies, applications. Don Mills, Ontario: Pearson.

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Job redesign 1

Name: Nancy Gupta (2021439)

University Canada West

Course Name: MBA (Direct)

Instructor Name: Patrick Cheng

Due Date: 22nd November 2020

workplace and low staff turnaround.

Store Manager, Inventory control specialist, Cashier in the retail outlets.

hours may vary.

need the involvement of any other officials.

increased productivity, reduce overtime expenses and absenteeism.

done by Inventory control specialist and vice versa.

complete the requirement of customers.

TELECOMMUTING- It is working from home on specific days from an office computer.

below the poverty line.

individuals of the public relation department in increased job performance.

individuals to complete the assigned duties.

department in the organization.

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