29/04/2016
Job Rotation Advantages
Job rotation is considered as an effective tool for successful implementation of HR strategy. It is about settling employees at the right place where they can deliver the maximum results.
Definition: - Job rotation involves an employee changing positions within the same organization and eventually returning to the original position. It can refer to different types of rotations.
Type: - Job rotation can be a Task Rotation or Position rotation
Task Rotation: - Employees are periodically removed from these mentally stressful or physically demanding tasks to a less demanding task for a while to give them a break.
Position Rotation:-It is the process of laterally moving an employee to different positions, departments or geographic locations for the purposes of professionally developing the employee by exposing them to new knowledge, skills and perspectives.
Position rotation can be further broken down into within-function rotation and cross-functional rotation.
Within-function rotation is where an employee rotates between jobs with similar levels of responsibility and in the same functional or operational areas
Cross-functional rotation, on the other hand, usually involves a sequence of positions, often with increasing levels of job responsibilities.
Advantages of Job Rotation:-
o Helps Managers Explore the Hidden Talent:
o Helps Individuals Explore Their Interests
o Identifies Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
o Motivates Employees to Deal with New Challenges
o Increases Satisfaction and Decreases Attrition Rate
o Helps Align Competencies with Requirements
o Reduces the boredom and monotony through diversifying the employees activities.
o Employees with a wider range of skills give management more flexibility in scheduling work, adapting to changes and filling vacancies
o It broadens the range of experience of employees and is an effective training technique.
As every coin has two faces Job rotation also has some disadvantages like training cost is increased, work is disturbed as rotated employee is new and many more. Thus, the role of job rotation in motivating people is limited.
Conclusion is that job rotation is an alternative to reduce the boredom caused due to repetitiveness of tasks and revive their willingness to handle a job and challenges involved in it with same excitement and zeal.
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