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Concept of Job Design!

Basic Terminology:- They are keywords which are used to define the concept. Job design use different keywords such as task, job, position and occupations. These keywords are also called basic terminology of job design:

 1. Task

In individual organization have to accomplish different activities to fulfill their responsibilities, their activities are called task. In other words, task are different activities of the job that individuals have to perform in organization. They are small units of job. For eg: preparing journal, income statement are the task required to perform by an accountant.

 2. Job

A set of different task to be perform by an individual in the organization is known as job. In other words, a job can be defined as a closely interrelated set of task to be performed to achieve goals. Job determines duties, responsibilities, accountability, etc of human resources in an organization. It also determine the level of the challenge and risk they have to face in the organization. Organization involved different kinds of job such as manage, officer, supervisor, accountant, etc.

 3. Position

Individuals hold different kinds of designation in the organizational structure that designation is known as position. In other words, position can be defined as the designation given to human resources in the organization to accomplish assign job. It facilitates for preparing organizational structure, determining salary structure and achieving work specialization. The position also determine responsibilities, accountability of human resources and their image in the organization.

 4. Occupation

A profession in which individual keep them busy at all time is known as occupation. In other words, it can be defined as the business by which individuals keep themselves busy to generate income. Occupation may be different in terms of nature. Such as: farming, business, bank, teaching, engineering, etc.

Concept of Job Design

Job design includes the combination of two different terms job and design. A "job" refers to the set of activities to be accomplished by human resource. Whereas, "design" is concerned with the framework or limitation. So, job design can be defined as the process of determining the jobs to be accomplished and framework or limitation of the work.
In other word, it can be defined as the process of determining and defining; What is to be done ? How is to be done ? in the organization. It defines the content of the job and method of doing the job. However different scholars have given their own views about the job design.

According to Nc Jain, "Job design is a process by which managers divided individuals job task and responsibilities."

Job design is a conscious effort of structuring employees and organization structure. It defines duties, authorities and responsibilities of human resource by specifying minimum human and non-human qualification required to fulfill responsibilities. It aims to maintain balance between the need of human resource and managers.