Job Rotation

The advantages of job rotation are: • Allows managers to see the hidden talents • Helps in exploring interests and ideas • Identifies skills • All employees are motivated to deal with new challenges • Boosts satisfaction level and reduces attrition rates • Fraudulent practices are minimized • Eliminates boredom • Encourages development • Job rotation gives a backup plan when an employee leaves The disadvantages of job rotation are: • Waste of time and efforts • Employees take time to adjust to a new job role • Job rotation sometimes leads to a lot of stress and anxiety • It is costly and time-consuming • It does not address all the problems • It is not feasible for some industries • The business may suffer losses sometimes

Types of job rotation The two types of job rotation are vertical and horizontal. Vertical job rotation occurs when the organization promotes an employee to a new position. Horizontal job rotation occurs when an employee is given an opportunity in a different position in a short-term lateral position. Objectives of job rotation are : • Reducing monotony of the job The most important objective of job rotation is to reduce the monotony and repetitiveness in the job. Job rotation allows employees to experience different types of jobs and gain experience thus motivates them to perform well at each stage of job rotation. • Succession Planning Succession planning means who will replace someone at senior position. The concept of job rotation is to develop pool of employees who can be placed at a senior level when someone gets retired or leaves the organization. • Creating right employee job fit The organization is successful because of on job productivity of the employees. If...

 The benefits of job rotation are: • Raises intrinsic reward potential of a job: Job rotation is likely to raise reward potential of a job due to different skill and abilities needed to perform the job. An employee becomes a versatile employee due to job rotation. Management gets the benefit of job rotation as workers become competent in several jobs instead of one job. Staff adjustment in different department also increases due to job rotation. • Beneficial to organization Job rotation is very much beneficial as organization gain as their employees are versatile. Employees develop various skills due to job rotation and hence it is very much beneficial to the organization. • Employee becomes competent in various jobs Due to job rotation workers know about a variety of jobs. It facilitates the growth of the employees and makes them more useful to the organization. The organization benefit as the workers becomes competent in several jobs. • Improves inter departmenta...