JOBROTATION

DefinitionIs a Job design technique in which employees are moved between two or more jobs in a planned manner. Objective is to expose the employees to different experiences and wider variety of skills to enhance job satisfaction and to cross-train them.

Moving an employee from job to job. The purposes of job rotation are (1) to give employees experience with all organizational activities as a training process and (2) to offset boredom, which can occur when performing the same job over an extended period of time.

Benefits

• broaden the horizon of knowledge, skills, and abilities by working in different departments, business units, functions, and countries.

• Identification of Knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) required

• It determines the areas where improvement is required

• Assessment of the employees who have the potential and caliber for filling the position

Importance of job rotation

Surest way of keeping the employee away from complacency and boredom of routine.

Stimulating human mind through diversity of challenges to bring to forefront its creative instincts and in taking the individual and organizational performance to a higher plane.

Potential of job rotationFOR INDIVIDUAL1. Job enrichment2. Overall development3. Intrinsic motivation to perform caused by newer challenges4. Career development

FOR AN ORGANIZATION1. Leadership development2. Aligning competencies with organizational requirements3. Lower attrition rates4. Performance improvement driven by unique view points of new people

In these ways job rotation gets aligned with career development, leadership development and employee satisfaction which would finally result in higher levels of intrinsic motivation among the employees and hence may contribute in retaining talent.

THANKSSubmitted by: Khushboo mathur