Non Financial Motivation: Job Rotation

• Is when workers are moved from job to job or station to station
• Job rotation- can be defined as the practice of moving employees between different tasks to promote experience and variety.
• There are several reasons why this is done:
• In order to prevent boredom and workplace alienation
• In order to expose the employee to various work experiences
• It is also used as a form of on-the-job training as it
• Allows workers to gain various skills as they are rotated
• All this enhances a worker’s job satisfaction
• Job satisfaction– is contentment (or lack of it) arising out of interplay of employee’s positive and negative feelings toward his or her work.
• One of the advantages of job rotation is that it serves a dual purpose i.e.
• It motivates and trains workers at the same time
• Working on a variety of tasks and in a variety of positions stimulates workers
• Job rotation also results in a versatile (multi skilled) workforce thus preventing worker shortages
• Some of the disadvantages of job rotation are:
• It works limiting authority and responsibility difficult
• It goes against the unit of command principles
• A lot of time is wasted in getting workers to become familiar with  their new tasks, stations and responsibilities
• Employees may become stressed when forced to move out of their areas of experience  resulting in job satisfaction

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