Job Rotation Essay

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The effectiveness of job rotation practices in increasing employee motivation, commitment and job involvement in Amazon Inc.

Research question.

a) What are the various basic factors and components that enhance the employee performance at work?
b) Is there a relationship between job rotation and employee performance in industries?
c) What are the effects and the impacts of the job rotation amongst the employees?

Research hypothesis
a) There is relationship between job rotation and employee motivation.
b) There is relationship between job rotation and employee commitment
c) There is relationship between job rotation and employee involvement.

Introduction
Being one of the biggest companies that conduct job rotations on their employees, …show more content…

The first phase was aimed at measuring the demographic details such as the age , marital status, education level, job experience and the salary amounts. The employee development was then measured through seven items which were derived from various articles. On a five-point scale, ranging from 1 to 5, (where 1= strongly disagree) and (5= strongly agree). Job rotation is operationalized as the perceptions of interests in these developments as well as the competences acquired from the job rotation. In another phase, job rotation was evaluated with 18 items retrieved from the past publications where all of the 18 items were consequently measured with a five-point scale similar to the one that was used for the employee development. In total, there were 25 items in the questionnaire and using the five-point Likert Scale. Just as the thumb rule stipulates, 1:5 ratio for every item, there should be 5 respondents (Schyns, & Von Collani, 2002). Therefore, since there were a total of 25 items the number of the workers that were given the questionnaire was 125. The study mainly dwelled on the past research and was tailored in relation to the objectives of the research question. Consequently, the study utilized the Statistical Package for Social Science …show more content…

The correlation results showed that the measures of job rotation were directly related to the employee motivation, development and the job commitment. From the study, 110 employees, which accounts for 88%, suggested that by through job rotation, they have acquired so many knowledge and competences on various job sections in the company. Consequently the study revealed that 120 of the employees have been in the company for more than 3 years. From their response, the most of them indicated that they enjoyed working in various job placements as they usually gained a lot of ideas and satisfaction, which may not be gotten from anywhere else. This showed that job rotation can indeed improve employees’ personal development through acquiring organizational and technical knowledge as well as enhancing their stay at the company, which is commitment. This relationship between the job rotation and the employee development and commitment indicates that a company that gives its workers various chances of gaining the skills diversity, also enhances their interests and thus, would have promotion chances in the institution. This is so in regard that, 60% of the Amazon Inc were found to have been promoted to superior positions due to their interests and competences they acquired from job rotations (Jorgensen,

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