The percentage level of job enrichment

Running head: HRM
Topic: Job Enrichment is Simply a Management Technique to Get People to Work Harder
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Introduction:
The essay tries to put forward an explanation on whether job enrichment is simply a
management technique to get people to work harder. Job enrichment can be defined as a
procedure of motivating the individuals such that they are able to derive increased level of
satisfaction from work (Zareen, Razzaq and Mujtaba 2013). It is believed that employees require
this at a regular basis so that they remain motivated at work. The essay will put across a
discussion on how job enrichment can lead to higher employee commitment by putting across
arguments. Job enrichment however comprises of various workplace practice that includes self-
directed team, quality circles, rotation of jobs as well as information sharing. One of the probable
motivation for the adoption of these practice lies in challenging and motivating the workers and
encouraging them towards participating in improvement of the productivity, quality and the
safety of the products. Job enrichment can however be considered as an effective management
technique that motivates the employees to work harder and enhance productivity only if it does
not interfere with the autonomy of the workers.
Discussion:
In the competitive business world of today, each and every organization has been facing
newer challenges with regard to the sustained productivity and in the creation of a committed
workforce. No single organization can perform at the peak levels until the employees remains
committed to organizational objectives. Job enrichment has thus been regarded as one of the key
tools for improving the commitment and the motivation level of the employees. It takes place
when the employer through intensification and development puts additional work on the workers
with the goal of not only making it increasingly meaningful and interesting along with enhancing
the job responsibility and challenge. Jobs are mostly enriched through motivating the employees

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on the enhanced need for developing variety of skills on jobs. With the fast changes in the
environment along with the enhanced level of competitive rivalry, organizations are gradually
shifting from its traditional ideological orientation of overviewing money as one of the greatest
factors of motivation towards a situation where the workers still values the work, possess
increased level of control in scheduling the work and decide how best a work needs to be
accomplished that results in enhancing their self-esteem. Job enrichment allows the workers in
deriving pleasure and fulfillment of their position with larger variety of tasks as well as skills
which requires self-sufficiency. The job enrichment technique in the light of the human resource
management has been observed as dynamic process that contributes towards increasing the work
process and structures within an ambience that provides flexibility, autonomy, satisfaction and
personal growth towards workplace (Sushil 2014).
The notion of job enrichment has however been explained differently defined by different
people. But overall it indicated that job enrichment lies in making the work more enjoyable
along with building motivational elements into job. Lunenburg (2011), defined it as the strategy
of job design for enhancing the job content by incorporating into it increased level of motivating
potential. Raza and Nawaz (2011) on the other hand referred to it as the attempt of motivating
the employees by providing them with an opportunity of utilizing the abilities. Joo, Lim and Kim
(2016) however defined it as systematic technique in harnessing the work procedure and process
for stimulating the performance and the satisfaction of the employees. Nevertheless, the essence
has been in enabling the employees in building a sense of self sufficiency as well as self-
management.
It has been found that enriched jobs have various advantages to an organization and
particularly the employees. Desrumaux et al. (2015) puts forward a viewpoint that enriched job