Job Rotation refers to the process of moving employees between various roles within the organization at regular intervals. Job Rotation is a pre-planned approach to test and hone employee’s skills and competencies and boost flexibility. Job Rotation Benefits - Helps to hone employees skills - Expand the employee’s network as he gets to know people from different departments. - Encourages employees to adapt, learn and cope with different job scenarios. - Improves personal agility and reduces boredom. - Offers constructive challenges and minimizes the chance of resignation - Rotation is used during training so that the employee can handle diverse roles. - Useful in replacing a talent quickly by someone from the organization itself as a large pool has been created through job rotation. - Boosts flexibility in the organization. - Proves an excellent opportunity for learning and passing on skills, knowledge and competencies. Disadvantages of Job Rotation - Job rotation follows a horizontal approach and the chance of promotion becomes less for an employee. - When the workers are deprived of growth it starts interfering with their career plans. - Creates an unhappy and demoralized workforce. - Increases employee turnover. - Lack of understanding in an employee about his abilities. - Decreases the level of efficiency as the employee's work is often disrupted because of shifting to different departments. - Employees take time and need the training to adjust to new roles. This proves expensive in terms of effort, time and money for the organization Job Rotation best Practices 1. Planning and job rotation Refers to specific sequencing of jobs for career pathing 2. Feedback and monitoring Helps to make employees pro at doing different roles 3. Coaching Serves as an apt training to step effectively in a new role 4. Convincing employees Makes sure that the employees are aware of the benefits 5. A way to achieve an end It can serve numerous purposes Examples 1. Google 2. Facebook 3. Virgin America 4. Unilever This video is on Job Rotation and it has the following sub-topics. Time Stamps 0:00 Introduction 00:20 What is Job Rotation? 01:09 Job Rotation Benefits 02:49 Disadvantages of Job Rotation 04:05 Job Rotation Best Practices 04:48 Job Rotation