Job enrichment is a strategy used by organizations to increase quality of work life and raise employees performance. Job enrichment involves additional of variety motivators to a job (such as tasks, autonomy, feedback, identity and responsibilities) in order to make a job more meaningful to the employees. It aims at increasing employee's satisfaction, motivation and productivity.
Advantages of job enrichment
1. EMPLOYEES ACQUIRE NEW SKILLS
Job enrichment may involve assigning employees with new tasks which requires new skills to perform. When employees perform these new tasks, they could learn new skills.
2. BOOSTS WORKING MORALE AND MOTIVATION
Since job enrichment involves addition of motivators such as feedback, autonomy, new tasks and responsibilities in a job. This can help to reduce monotony and boredom, and increase motivation which can result to increase in employees performance too.
3. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
Adding motivators to a job helps to raise employees working morale. This can lead to improvement of employees performance in their jobs.
4. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
Employees may come up with new ideas and be more productive when given more varieties and challenges in their jobs.
5. REDUCE ABSENTEEISM AND TURNOVER
6. IMPROVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT
The implementation of job enrichment may involve necessary improvement of the working environment. The improved working environment may increase employees motivation and performance.
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