What is Job simplification?

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. 

In 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. It is an opposite of job enlargement whereby new roles are added to an existing job to make it challenging and motivational.

Job simplification makes jobs more focused, minimizes costs and expenditure, avoids workload, increases performance, increases efficiency and productivity, reduces stress to the employees, helps employees to accomplish tasks in a required time, reduces errors as well as increases customers satisfaction due to increase in efficiency and productivity.

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