Job simplification is a method of job design which involves breaking down complex jobs into small parts or sub-parts to make them easier and manageable. It is also known as work simplification.
On other hand, job simplification involves reduction of roles from jobs or employees who have multiple or many roles to perform, the aim is to make jobs more focused which can result in increase in performance and productivity in organizations. Job simplification is an opposite of job enlargement whereby in job enlargement new roles are added to an existing job to make it challenging and motivational.
Job simplification has various benefits to employees and whole organization. Some of its benefits include making jobs more focused, minimizing costs and expenditure, avoiding work overload, increasing performance, increasing efficiency and productivity, reducing stress to the employees, helping employees to accomplish tasks in a required time, reducing errors as well as increasing customers satisfaction due to increase in efficiency and productivity.
