EFFECT OF SUBORDINATE JOB ENRICHMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

 The job enrichment has become a basic tool for management to motivate their employee’s in order to improve the performance and organizational growth. The main aim of job enrichment is to make the job more interesting, meaningful, challenging and responsible. Jobs are enriched to motivate employees by adding to their responsibilities with a greater need for skill varieties in their jobs. Job enrichment is away to motivate workers by giving them opportunity to use a range of their abilities, this is done by giving them more responsibilities and varieties in their job.

The purpose of job enrichment is to reverse the negative effects of repetitive tasks requiring autonomy, and having effects such as boredom, lack of flexibility and employees dissatisfaction. An enriched job will contain a range of tasks and challenges of varing toughness a complete unit of work and feedback, encouragement and communication mechanisms (Saleem, Shaheen, Saleem, 2012).

Due to the rapid change in environment and increasing level of competitive rivalry, organizations are not beginning to shift from the traditional ideological orientation of seeing money as the greatest motivating factor to a situation where workers today will continue to value their work, have more control in scheduling their work and deciding how best the work should be done and to be esteemed for the work they do. (Saleem, Shaheen, Saaleem, 2012).

In job enrichment, workers derive pleasure and fulfillment in their position with a greater variety of skills and tasks that requires self systematic technique of “harnessing work processes and procedures for stimulating employees’ performance and satisfaction” (Robbins and judge, 2011).

This implies that employees can sense job dissatisfaction when they realized their jobs lack necessary challenge(s), lack adequate recognition, respect, creativity and other motivators, monotonous procedures, or a highly bureaucratic and over-controlled authority structure. Enriching job brings about internal work motivation and not just more work for them to do. Hence, job enrichment serves as a roadmap to job fulfillment by improving the level of employee’s responsibility, acknowledgement, creativity, autonomy and control of the job to be performed in the organization.

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Employees in every organization want to draw fulfillments from their jobs and every human resource Manager/Management wants the employees to be fulfilled being the most important resources of the organization. On the other hand, involving the employees in managerial functions of the higher ranks is called job enrichment. In a nutshell, Job enrichment is a source of motivation for the employees which leads to a goal-oriented behaviour (Ramlial, 2014). To this end, the researcher undertook the study titled effects of job enrichment on Subordinate performance in Organization.

Background of study  

Frederick Hertzberg in the 1950s developed and sees job enrichment as vertical loading’ of a job (Davoudi, 2013). This means that an enriched job should provide a range of tasks to be done with adequate Feedback mechanism, encouragement and communication. Leach & Wall (2002) posited that Job Enrichment is a vertical expansion of tasks with increase in employee control and responsibility. It is a vertical expansion Job enrichment is the systematic technique of “harnessing work processes and procedures for stimulating employees’ performance and satisfaction”
(Robbins & Judge, 2011). This implies that workers can sense job dissatisfaction when they realize their jobs lack necessary challenge(s), lack of adequate recognition, respect, creativity and other motivators, repetitive procedures, or a highly bureaucratic and over-controlled authority structure. Job enrichment, according to Kotila (2001) is a job design technique that is useful in providing autonomy and encouraging employees’ initiative towards high quality performance and job excellence. Mione (2004) sees Job enrichment as a managerial activity intended to provide employees with the necessary resourcing strategies to facilitate skill development opportunities. Ralph Brown (2004) concluded that enriching job brings about internal work motivation and not just more work for them to do. Hence, Job enrichment serves as a roadmap to job fulfilment by improving the level of employees’ responsibility, acknowledgement, creativity, autonomy and control of the job to be performed in the organization.
The principle of job enrichment in the practice of human resource management has tremendously been seen as a dynamic process of increasing the work structures and processes with an environment that gives room for autonomy, flexibility, personal growth and satisfaction to the workplace (Aguinis, 2009).
 

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

 
The problems of boredom and job dissatisfaction which consequently result in workers’ low productivity, delay in administrative performance, work stress, psychological breakdown, absenteeism and lateness and eventually withdrawal of services are common decimal in most public institutions. One possible reason for this development is that workers in these institutions view their jobs as dead ends and therefore have no pride in their work (Beatty and Schneier, 1981). To prevent losing such valuable workforce to competitors as a result of boredom and job dissatisfaction, Brown (2004) stated that job enrichment could be an excellent means. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the elements of job enrichment on subordinate’s performance.

TABLES OF CONTENTS

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      CONTENTS                                                                                        PAGES

       Title page       –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              i

          Approval page     –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              ii

          Certification         –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              iii

          Dedication            –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              iv

          Acknowledgements        –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              v-vi

          Abstract      –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              vii

       List of Tables         –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              viii

       Table of Contents   –        –        –        –        –        –        –        –              ix

       CHAPTER ONE   

      INTRODUCTION

  1. Background of study                                                                                1-3
    1.     Statement of the study                                                                    3
    1. Specific Objectives                                                                          3-4
    1. Research Questions                                                                         4
    1.     Statement of Hypotheses                                                                         4-5
    1.     Significance of the study                                                                 5
    1.    Scope of the study                                                                          5
    1.    Limitations of the study                                                                 5-6
    1.       Organization of the study                                                               6-7
    1.    Definition of terms                                                                         7-8

      CHAPTER TWO  

 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

  2.1         Conceptual Framework                                                              9-10

  2.1.2    Job enrichment on subordinate performance in organization    11-12

  2.1.3    Factors of  Job Enrichment                                                       12-13

  2.1.4     Individual performance in Organization                                   11-12

  2.1.5    Skill variety on subordinate                                                       15-16

2.1.6      Task significant                                                                         17-19

2.1.7      Task Identification                                                                              19-20

2.1.8      Autonomy on subordinate performance                                     20-22

2.1.9      Feedback on subordinates performance                                    22-23

2.2                   Theoretical framework                                                              24-25

2.2.1      Job enrichment and employee Involvement                                        25   

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2.2.2      Job enrichment and employee commitment                                        25-26

2.2.3      Job enrichment and employee  performance                                       26-27

2.2.4      Job enrichment and employee motivation                                 27-28

2.2.5      Job enrichment and organizational performance                       28-29

2.3                   Empirical Review                                                                      25-30

      CHAPTER THREE       

 RESEARCH DESIGN/METHODOLOGY

 3.1                  Research Design                                                                        31-32

 3.2        Population of study                                                                   32

 3.3         Sampling determination technique                                           32-33

 3.4        Sample size                                                                             33

 3.5        Instrumentation                                                                       33-34

 3.6        Method of Date Analysis                                                                  34-36

 3.7                   Problems of Data Collection                                                  36

      CHAPTER FOUR

 DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

 4.1         Analysis of Research Question                                                        37

4.1.1      Research question one (1)                                                       37-38

4.1.2      Research question two (2)                                                       38-39

4.1.3      Research question three (3)                                                     39-40

4.1.4      Research question four (4)                                                      40-41

4.1.5      Research question five (5)                                                       42-43

 4.2        Test of Hypotheses                                                                 43

4.2.1      Test of Hypotheses one                                                                    43-46

4.2.2      Test of Hypotheses two                                                          46-49

4.2.3      Test of Hypotheses three                                                                  49-52

4.2.4      Test of Hypotheses four                                                                    52-54

4.2.5      Test of Hypotheses five                                                           55-57

 4.3                  Discussion of Findings                                                            58-60

      CHAPTER FIVE  

 SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

  • Summary of Finding                                                               61
    •         Conclusion                                                                               61-62

5.3        Recommendations                                                                             62-63

                  References –                                                                            64-65

              Appendices –                                                                          66

               Copy of Questionnaire                                                            67-69

                Diagram Presentation of Biodata etc                                               70-73

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