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Job or work simplification is a method of designing jobs in which some roles and responsibilities are reduced from a job to make it easier and manageable. The process of simplifying the jobs aims at making those jobs more focused so as to increase performance and productivity in a company.
Job simplification is an opposite of job enlargement. Where by job enlargement which is also a method of job design, involves addition of new roles to an existing job to make it more challenging and motivational.
Job simplification is more advantageous to both employees and whole organization. Some advantages of job simplification includes:
- It minimizes costs and expenditures
- It avoids work overload
- It increases job performance, efficiency, productivity
- It reduces stress to employees
- It helps employees to finish tasks on time
- It reduces errors
- It increases customer satisfaction due to increase in efficiency and productivity
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