Job enrichment
What Job enrichment means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Providing more complex, challenging duties to develop skills.
Designing a job to give employees greater responsibility and more complex, challenging tasks.
Topics that use Job enrichment
- Motivating employees (AQA GCSE)
- Motivation (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Commission
- Competitiveness and profitability
- Cost versus benefit of motivation methods
- Employee retention and productivity
- Financial and non-financial rewards
- Fringe benefits
- Job design and employee responsibility
- Motivation
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