Job Enrichment and Job

enlargement
 JOB ENRICHMENT

Job enrichment is a management concept that

involves redesigning jobs so that they are more
challenging to the employee and have less repetitive
work.
FEATURES OF JOB ENRICHMENT

 The characteristics or features of job enrichment are:-

 Nature of Job : Job enrichment is a vertical expansion of the job.

 Objective : The objective of Job enrichment is to make the job more lively and challenging.

 Positive Results : Job enrichment gives positive results if the workers are highly skilled.

 Direction and Control : Job enrichment encourages self-discipline.

ADVANTAGES OF JOB ENRICHMENT
The importance or merits or advantages of job enrichment are:-

 Job enrichment is useful to both the workers and the organization.

 The worker gets achievement, recognition and self-actualization.

 The worker gets a sense of belonging to the organization.

 The worker finds the job meaningful.

 Job enrichment reduces absenteeism, labour-turnover and grievances.

 It motivates the workers to give best performance.

Job Enlargement Means

 Job Enlargement is the horizontal expansion of a job. It involves the addition of tasks at
the same level of skill and responsibility. It is done to keep workers from getting bored.
It is different than job enrichment.

 Examples: Small companies may not have as many opportunities for

promotions, so they try to motivate employees through job enlargement.
ADVANTAGES OF JOB ENLARGEMENT
The importance or merits or advantages of job enlargement are:-
 Variety of skills :- Job enlargement helps the organization to
improve and increase the skills of the employee due to organization
as well as the individual benefit.
 Improves earning capacity :-Due to job enlargement the person
learns many new activities.
 Wide range of activities :- Job enlargement provides wide range of
activities for employees.
 Job Enrichment
1. Job loading Job enrichment involves vertical
loading of functions and
responsibilities of the employee .
2. Purpose The purpose of job enrichment is to
make the job more lively, challenging
and satisfying.
3. Skills required Job enrichment requires the
development and utilization of higher
skills, initiative and innovation on the
part of the job holders.
4. Direction & In job enrichment the employee uses
Control his own capabilities of self-direction
and control. He needs less of external
direction and control.
Job Enlargement
Job enlargement involves a
horizontal loading or expansion
of job .
The purpose of job enlargement
is to reduce the monotony in
performing certain repetitive
jobs .
Job enlargement may not
necessarily call for the
acquisition of higher level or new
skills on the part of the job
holders.
In job enlargement the job
holder may need more external
direction and control in view of
enlargement of the scope of his
responsibilities.