Job Rotation & it’s Impact on Employee & Company Performance
What is Job Rotation
Job rotation is a strategy that employees get swift their
job responsibilities between the jobs in same organization. Job rotation is a
key strategy to gain experience for employees in various job roles, as well
have develop their career to take responsibilities in various areas & also
it will help to improve employee skills. Job rotation is not promotion always,
but it is move workers from one job responsibility to other
Job rotation strategy we have both positive & negative
impacts to worker as well as to the organization & this journal to discuss both
advantages & disadvantages of job rotation.
Advantages of Job Rotation
By doing job rotation will not
only help to develop employee career & that will benefit to improve competitive
advantage to organization too.
Eliminate Employee Boredom:
When a company does not have opportunity to offer promotions, employees must
work on same position for longer period & that creates stresses on employees
by doing same work over & over the years. This will impact to performance for
he/she job duties. By doing job rotation employee will get new duties & responsibilities,
which will help them to work in different conditions & on different tasks. This
may help to get rid from the stress that they have by doing same job over the period
Encourage Development:
With new job duties & responsibilities, employee must have to learn on
activities of new role, which will develop their work career by make them
capable to manage various tasks. Also, by develop their skill they will be more
valuable for organization too
Employees get a Break from
Strenuous Job Duties: Some workers, specially who does heavy duty works,
can get some break from their job duties & attach with new duties, which are
not heavy duty or like office paperwork jobs. Also, this will help them to get
recover from any pains that they suffer due to heavy duty jobs
Identify the Strength of Employee:
By doing job rotation strategy, organization can identify the area that the employee
strong. People do not get always correct job what they capable of most, with
the current situation some people tend to grab the job what they get by the
organization, but in actual scenario they might be capable of some other works.
Rotation of job duties will help organization to understand where their employees
capable of
Company gets Backup Plan:
Since the employees get knowledge & experience of couple of job responsibilities,
which gives competitive advantage to organization when an employee resigns from
his position. Company does not need to stress out to perform the job duties of
resign person & if it is important role that company can sit the person who
trained the job role without much hassle
Can get Improvements to Perform
of Job Duties: When employees engaged to new job role, while he/she learn
the job, he/she may look on new and uncomplicated ways to perform the job
duties & the person who does this over the years, could not see this, as
he/she has addict to certain way to perform. So, by doing job rotation organization
can get this competitive advantage too.
Disadvantages of Job Rotation
In job rotation strategy there
are disadvantages too, as well as it has advantages.
Can be Costly & Time
Consuming: When rotate the job duties, organization has to train the new
person to position & there will be cost involve & also the time he
taken to adopt with new role will be matters to perform the job duties
Could end up with Disgruntled Employees:
Some employees are comfortable with the job duties, tasks what they currently
does & they feel uncomfortable when job rotations. Such will impact to lose
some experienced workers to organization and less performance of new job role
This will not Solve All
Problems: Employees get stressed on work due to various issues & it is
not only cos of doing the same work duties over the years
Job Rotation not Feasible of
Some Industries: When it comes to high skilled positions that employees need
year of experience to performance job duties, the job rotation will not be
feasible to do
Can Impact to Business: This
can impact to organization business activities & plans. It may get time to
adjust employee to adopt with new job duties & by the time the employee full
adopt job there can be errors, which can impact heavy to origination profits
& image. Also, the actions of unsatisfied employees due to job rotation can
impact to organization
Conclusion
As above discussed, there are
positive & negative impacts to employee as well as to organization due to
job rotation strategy. Organization HR & management must have to implement job
rotation strategy with goods sense always & to get the job rotation success,
organization need to have,
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Clear set of goals
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Clear understand that employee rotation from which
position to which position
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Analyze how the job rotation benefitted to
employee & organization growth
References
Job Rotation is very important function of an organization since it allows all employees involve in every function of an organization. It will reduce the monotonous and also increase the interesting working environment. Good Luck.
ReplyDeleteAs discussed, job rotation is important in enabling employees to gain new skills and develop their knowledge. It will also motivate employees and increase their engagement. This in turn will reduce employee turnover levels. Good article.
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