Which statement best describes job enlargement?

Which statement best describes job enlargement?

• A. Systematically moving workers between jobs
• B. Adding more tasks at same level
• C. Assigning workers activities in other jobs
• D. Reducing responsibilities

Answer: (B)

Job enlargement means expanding the scope of a job by adding more tasks at the same level of responsibility and authority. This increases variety and workload without changing the worker’s title or the level of accountability, which is why adding more tasks at the same level best describes it. Other ideas described by the distractors involve shifting people to different jobs (job rotation), cross-training or multi-skilling, or actually reducing the job’s responsibilities, none of which capture enlarging the same job’s task set.

Job enlargement means expanding the scope of a job by adding more tasks at the same level of responsibility and authority. This increases variety and workload without changing the worker’s title or the level of accountability, which is why adding more tasks at the same level best describes it. Other ideas described by the distractors involve shifting people to different jobs (job rotation), cross-training or multi-skilling, or actually reducing the job’s responsibilities, none of which capture enlarging the same job’s task set.