Two organizations are considering job redesign in order to improve employee motivation.One organization is planning on job enrichment and the other is going to use job enlargement.Each organization has asked you to explain how they should proceed and the likely outcomes of their job redesign programs.What will you tell them?

Job enrichment is the design of jobs to enhance intrinsic motivation, quality of working life, and job involvement.Job enrichment procedures can include combining tasks, establishing client relationships (internal and external), reducing supervision, forming teams, and making feedback more direct.The organization can expect an improvement in employees' intrinsic motivation and job involvement.Job enlargement involves increasing job breadth by giving employees more tasks at the same level to perform but leaves the other core job characteristics unchanged.As a result, it is unlikely to improve intrinsic motivation especially if employees are just given more boring, fragmented, routine tasks to do.