Differences between Job Rotation, Job Enlargement and Job Enrichment

These three aspects are related to Job Design Approaches. Following are the three aspects in detail:
i) Job Rotation:
Job rotation, as the name suggests means rotating the job. It involves the movement of employees through a range of jobs in order to increase interest and motivation. It can improve "multi-tasking" but also involves the need for continuous training. It reduces boredom and disinterest through diversifying the employee's activities. With the help of Job Rotation, the management can easily identify in which area the particular employee is best at work.

Job Rotation also has certain drawbacks:
Every time an employee is transferred to other department; it will cost a huge training cost.
Employees may take time in adjusting with the new environment.
ii) Job Enlargement:
Job Enlargement means the expansion of the number of different tasks performed by employee under a single job or in a horizontal manner. It attempts to add some similar tasks in the existing job. It enhances the interest of the employee.
Job Enlargement is beneficial for employers as they are getting more amount of work in similar pay.
There are few main reasons because of which an employee is motivated to continue with Job enlargement. They are:-
Task Variety: There can be number of tasks to perform under the enlargement scheme; which tends to give a good variety to the workers to perform and it also helps them to be away from the boredom.
Utilization of the Ability: With the enlarged role in job the workers tend to use their highest ability to perform the task in better and efficient manner which acts as a motivational factor for them. The fact that management has to take care at this stage is that they should not stretch or enlarge the job in such a manner in which the employee feels frustrated and bored or the job should not become monotonous. On the contrary, management should find such a task and way of accomplishing it so that the employee should accept as a challenge which can be fulfilled easily with flying colours.

Feedback on the basis of Performance: Timely feedback enhances the motivation of the employees to work effectively and efficiently every time.
Along with the benefits which Job enlargement has, it also has certain drawbacks. They are: Workers may require additional training for the new task, which may cause increase in the training budget. If a new system is introduced first time; it may decrease the productivity.
iii) Job Enrichment:
Enrichment in the tasks which a worker performs means Job enrichment. It also means that additional authority is granted to the employee in his tasks list. The company can also introduce new and more difficult tasks not handled previously. It provides opportunity for employee's psychological growth.
The theory of Job enrichment was first stated by Herzberg. According to him, it has eight characteristics. They are:
Direct Feedback: Feedback given at the time of the result increases the morale of the worker to perform better.
Client Relationship: Serving the clients either external or internal enhances the job in many ways. External clients are the outside customers for eg: if an officer working in a showroom attends the customers and finishes a sale it means that he gave service to the external customer. But on the other hand internal customer is the other employee of the same organization. For eg: the same employee coordinates with the employee from the other department it means that he/she served internal customer.
Scheduling own work: Self-scheduling helps the employee to tackle which assignment to finish first and which later. This aspect enhances the creativity of the employees.
Direct Communication Authority: It allows communicating directly with the employees, which helps in increasing the results and the output.
Personal Accountability: After receiving direct feedback; employee can easily come to know about his own stand in the company.

4 Ways to Make HR Effective and Efficient

HR is the backbone of an organization. Effective and Efficient HR processes leads to the growth of the organization. The latest trends which the HR industry is following to make their HR effective and Efficient are


1. Use HR tools- HR tools make the work of the HR Managers easy by providing a complete interface for all the HR processes. Features like people management, payroll management, leave management, attendance management, etc and that to from a centralized system removes the complexity of the HR work and makes the processes simpler and smarter increasing the efficiency and effectiveness. Use of HR tools saves 10-12 clerical working days in managing the HR processes.HR tools are improves the transperency of the the processes. You do not miss out any record. Each and every detail is stored which can be reviewed anytime in no time.

2. Using Cloud Service for HR processes- Companies have started moving towards cloud to store organizational data and for managing the HR Processes. Cloud service provides access 24X7. It has not only made the processes simpler and smarter but also cost effective. Using Cloud for managing your data makes it more secure. HR Systems that are cloud based are modifying their system everyday to make things easier for the organizations. Hence today organizations are preferring to use cloud service for HR Management as these provide the option of regular enhancements.

3. Marketing approach for HR- The knowledge of work culture, leadership style, and the organizational brand gives clarity about the kind of HR the organization needs which helps in recruiting right people. Recruiting right people with right expectations increases the retention rate of the organization. Taking on board the right people also reduces the effort to train them, to connect them with the organization.

4. Employee Development- The development of the employees in the organization increases their motivation which raises their satisfaction level and keeps them happy. When the employees are happy and satisfied with their role in the organization they become more productive and prove to be an asset to the organization. Its the people of the organizations who are responsible for the growth of the organization and hence the experiential development and the job satisfaction of the employees should be the priority of the organization. Hence organizations are becoming employee centric focusing on the development of the employees to scale up their growth and improve the retention rate of their employees in the organization.

Absolute dependency and absolute success...a HR message

It is not just the mutual benefit but mutual dependency, absolute necessity and inseparability between people and corporate also become inevitable for the success both the corporate and its people.  One may wonder how one could survive and be successful if such an exclusive dependency is ever created?  In such relationship, if one partner gives a miss due to some reason, the other one have to go insignificant and defunct.  Why nature says such ‘necessary relationship between the two different species also means grand success. 


Look at the fig trees.  All fig trees are completely depends on small wasps called ‘fig wasps' for pollination.  Without their help, the fig flower that turn outside in cannot pollinate.  Interestingly the fig wasps also cannot breed anywhere else other than inside a fig fruit.
The fig wasp enters the flower when it is open and burrow inside when the flower turn from outside in and close completely.  Inside the closed flower, the pollinator fig also gets protection to breed and while doing so, it also pollinates and fertilizes the fig flower.
The management message is not just how both partners mutually benefit, how both partners depends upon each other and how exclusive and acute such dependency is.   During this process, many other insects do try their luck by entering the fig fruit/flower.  But they may not help the plant to pollinate.  Instead, thy may use such ‘secure' place to breed and rear their young ones.  It would not benefit the fig trees at all.  But the fig trees not only recognizes such ‘cheaters' but also smartly punishes them.   The un-pollinated fruits, the fig trees never hold them.  Such fruits quickly detach from the tree and get dropped.  Once the fruit is dropped off the tree, would die off and that will necessarily also kill the ‘cheater' insects.  Only when the cheaters are destroyed, the menace due to them in future also can be minimized if not totally prevented.

The tree if holds/retains the un-pollinated fruits, it would not only cause huge economic loss to the tree but also populate cheaters who can destroy the fig trees in future by not pollinating the fruits.  Once the tree recognizes the cheater who had entered the fruit, it is wise to loose the fruit and that is why it drops the un-pollinated fruits quickly.
It is not just the mutual benefit, absolute dependency and necessity between the two also can bring success.  This language and meaning, both the corporate and its people must learn.
Be smart in such relationship to recognize and eliminate the cheaters.  The fig trees are extremely successful despite having exclusive dependency on fig wasp to pollinate.

HR and Payroll - The Backbones of any Company

It is now very much old school to rely on the process which involves paper-based form filling. The process is too much tedious to maintain the physical files and sheets. It is prone to errors and very much inefficient system and one cannot afford to have such a system which prone to errors, costs a lot of time and which has a possibility of loss of paper files.


Not only this, bust being updated is equally important. One must always aim at keeping the data updated while auditing the same and ensure that the entered data is precise which will in turn help in saving the precious time which would otherwise would have been consumed for rectifying the mistakes if any. It is a very much embarrassing situation when someone points out mistakes in the report during the presentation. Stale news makes a bad impression and could lead in wrong decisions taken which would affect the company. So it is always recommended to stay updated.
In order to have a fool proof HR administration, there are some key points that should be remembered and followed as a part of managing skills. Orderliness or Organization is a skill of keeping the files in well organized manner which can save one's time is very essential. Failure in doing so may lead to confusion and frustration when you need those files in future for use. Organizing your time will definitely help you in terms of completing the tasks on time and without headache.
Another skill which is very much recommended to have in HR administration is to build professional relationship with the employees which can build a trust about the HR person into the minds of the employees so that whenever the latter have any issues or problems they can consult the HR person. This skill helps in managing as well as leading the employees. Along with building the trust among the employees an HR administrator must also inculcate strict code and ethics within the employees while working in the company. It should be well taken care of by the human resource person that the information about the employees confidential and not let into the hands of an unknown person.

Another most important aspect of any company's management is the löneadministration. Payroll administration is the record of the employees regarding the salary, insurance premiums, payroll taxes, employee leaves and holidays. A payroll administrator is responsible for keeping a track of working hours and accordingly producing the paychecks of the employees in the company. The main objective of a payroll administrator is to ensure that each and every employee of the company is being paid the right amount and on time. If everything goes right as planned and precisely then it can help save a good deal of time which can hence be utilized by the payroll administrator to give service and advice to other customers and clients of the company. Due to all the things mentioned above, the HR administration and payroll administration act as the two mist crucial pillars or the backbone of any company.