OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
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ISBN: 9781265224189
Author: Stevenson
Publisher: MCG
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To determine: Job design and its importance.

Introduction: The amount of the dependency on human effort by an organization in terms of achieving its goals is given by the work design. It is directly linked to the productivity of an organization where good work design helps in achieving high productivity.

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Job design and its importance:

Specifying the contents and methods of jobs is known as job design. It is the core activity of HR team which establishes relationship of jobs, methods, specifies jobs to meet the organization requirements.

The job design has high importance with respect to improving the productivity of the firm. Better the job design higher the productivity of the firm.

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