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What are the purposes of job changes?
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Following are the advantages of job-change plan:
(1) The employees can better plan their careers, set targets and develop aspirations.
(2) The company can better work out its training and executive development programmes.
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From the company's point of view, job changes following four useful purposes :
(1) Job changes help in improving the organisation structure. Decisions to abolish superfluous positions on the organisation chart, to change job descriptions and to make clear-cut authority delegations generally require for their execution and number of job changes and position reassignments.
(2) They maximise employee effectiveness. Through job changes, employees are assigned to positions where their capabilities may be used to the maximum.
(3) Job changes help management in adjusting to changes in operations. Job changes are used in adjusting company operations to changing economic conditions. In periods of recession, when total manpower requirements of a company fall, lay offs help management to reduce its direct labour costs by adjusting the work force to the operating level. Transfers are also made in the process of economic adjustment to make best utilisation of the number of workers left after lay offs.
(4) Job changes function as tools of disciplinary action. Demotions and lay offs are sometimes used to punish a worker for they cause him a loss of status and earnings.
