What is Job design ?

Job design gives an idea of deciding the content of a job. It fills with the set of the duties and responsibilities of the job. And also the methods of doing the job and the relationships between the employee and the employer as well as fellow workers. Job design is based on information about the qualifications required to do the job and also financial benefits for doing the job. Job design is highly consider for managers jobs. When handling this task it means designing the job the requirements of the company and the requirements of individual employer must be balanced. When we take the requirements of the organization include high productivity, quality of work and the time management.

As well as requirements of individual managers include the job satisfaction. It means they expect interesting and challenging type of jobs. Mainly it comes under job satisfaction. So jobs are not be made fully specialized because they lead to boredom.

Importance of Job design.

Job design is a very important task of staffing. It has to be designed properly. If not it will occur lot of problems. If the jobs are designed properly the organization will have efficient managers. It will effect to the development of the organization. When there is a well-planned job design in the organization it motivated to develop the organization and improve the productivity and profitability of the organization. As well as if we want able to do it properly if the jobs are designed badly then it will give results like absenteeism, high labour turnover, conflicts and other labour problems. In fact these are big problems to an organization. If the company hasn’t arranged the job designing properly the whole objectives and goals will be collapsed. 

In that case the job design acts a major part of the company. So finally we can say, when the company do the job design they should pay more attention regarding above facts.

References

Bolweg, J. F. (1976). Job Design and Industrial Democracy. Institute of Personal Management.

Parker, S. (1998). Job Design in Human Resource Management. London: SAGE publisher.

Pruijt, H. D. (1997). Job design And Technology . London: Rutledge.