Employees at CyberTech perform repetitive jobs that have resulted in boredom as well as repetitive strain injury.Technology makes it difficult to combine existing jobs,but the company wants to make employees more multiskilled.Which of the following would best help CyberTech to improve this situation?
A) Encourage employees to engage in mental imagery.
B) Introduce job specialization.
C) Introduce a gainsharing plan for all production employees.
D) Introduce job rotation.
E) Introduce job enrichment by having each employee produce the entire product rather than a small part of it.

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Job rotation is the practice of moving employees from one job to another. It supports multi-skilling (employees learn several jobs), which increases workforce flexibility in staffing the production process and in finding replacements for employees on vacation.

Employees at CyberTech Perform Repetitive Jobs That Have Resulted in Boredom