What is job enlargement?

Job enlargement is to add or to increase roles to a job. This means that, employees perform more duties than previous. Job enlargement may come with an increased salary but this doesn't mean an employee is promoted since it involves addition of tasks or duties within a same job, while promotion involves shifting from lower level to higher level within an organization (vertical movement). 

Job enlargement is a good way to improve employee's skills, to reduce monotony as well as to avoid boredom. However, job enlargement has also some disadvantages to both organization and employees, some disadvantages of job enlargement include job creep (workload), low efficiency due to lack of specialization and increase in costs of training employees the new roles.

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