My Analyzation of Elizabeth Laymen’s (2011) “Job Redesign for Expanded HIM Functions” Introduction Job enrichment and job design are two incredibly important factors to pay attention to when managing a business. A motivated employee who enjoys their work and finds reason to belong to the company is almost a guarantee of receiving great performance and productivity from your workforce and this is all achieved by effective job enrichment and job design. This article explores this through the analyzation of Laymen’s (2011) case study, labelled “Job Redesign for Expanded HIM Functions” How the principles of goal setting have been applied The principles of goal setting works off SMART objectives, which is an acronym used as a tool to effectively …show more content…
How the principles of job enrichment have been applied There is an incredibly large focus on job enrichment by Layman (2011) and she defines this as: “addition of new tasks at higher levels of skill, responsibility, and accountability”. Job enrichment is not always a silver bullet and should best be used under certain cultures and situations. Layman (2011) in her guide gives situations, solutions, and actions to these needs. Of these situations, Layman suggests that the best time to use job enrichment would be for employees who fall under: “Boredom, careless errors, tardiness, absenteeism, low moral”, “Boredom, mediocrity, skill levelling”, “Low morale, low accountability”, and “Delays in decision making” (All by Layman, …show more content…
According to Layman (2011), job enrichment when used under the right circumstances will create a culture of independence, creativity, and self reliance which in turn can make a very productive environment an enjoyable one, but as mentioned above, Layman (2011) also suggests that Job enrichment should only be used under certain situations as job enrichment may also cause large amounts of stress to occur in the workplace, causing burnout and other non-healthy reactions, which in turn could destroy the productive output of the company and also create high levels of employee