Explain the sociotechnical approach to job design and some ways to implement it

The relationships between the technology of operations and the social/psychological aspects of work are known as the sociotechnical approach to job design. Sociotechnical approaches to work design provide opportunities for continual learning and personal growth for all employees. Job enlargement is the horizontal expansion of the job to give the worker more variety, although not necessarily more responsibility. Job enlargement might be accomplished, for example, by giving a production-line worker the task of building an entire product rather than a small subassembly, or by job rotation, such as rotating nurses among hospital wards or flight crews on different airline routes. Job enrichment is vertical expansion of job duties to give the worker more responsibility. For instance, an assembly worker may be given the added responsibility of testing a completed assembly, so that he or she acts also as a quality inspector. A highly effective approach to job enrichment is to use teams.