Job Redesign For Expanded Hum

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In Elizabeth Layman’s, Job Redesign for Expanded HIM (Heath Information Services) Functions. The principles of goal setting are applied at the organizational level. The goals may be applied to quality of service and reducing cost or both. How this will be accomplished is by managers and directors routinely and periodically assessing the objectives of the goals and using work indicators of changes and assessing if a rearrangement in the process is warranted. Departments will align the organizational goals at four different levels, these four levels are re-engineering, restructuring, work re design, and job redesign. Leaders will re-engineer by scrutinizing mission, structure and policies, then restructuring the organizational structure to align with the goal set forth. Work redesign managers “rearrange work through task structure, work processes and procedure, and physical layout”. Job redesign affects the tasks of a job through addition, modification and deletion. The importance of goal setting will provide a direction in which to make improvements, it give objectives to reaches and provided a challenge (Flat World Knowledge, p. 338). There are down sides to goal setting, if the goal is to difficult to reach employee performance may be affected, other job requirements may be ignored because the focus will be on the accomplishment of the goal and unethical behavior may occur if goal is pursued aggressively(Flat World Knowledge, p. …show more content…

Based on the results of the evaluation the job is redesigned to increase responsibilities and often giving the position more autonomy to direct the process required for a given outcome. This empowers the employee to make to “eliminate unnecessary tasks, short cuts and overall increase their own performance” (Flat World Knowledge, p.

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