【HR术语】什么是工作充实？（What is job enrichment?）
什么是工作充实？
工作丰富化是一种激励策略，其重点是使人们从事的工作更有价值、更令人满意。更具体地说，工作丰富化为个人成就提供了更大的空间、更具挑战性的工作、更多的责任以及个人成长和发展的机会。
我们都希望对自己所从事的工作感觉良好，但只有 15%的人对自己的工作感到投入。这就是工作丰富化发挥重要作用的地方，它能让团队成员更快乐、更有动力。
工作丰富化的例子
人们喜欢挑战、被接受和被重视的感觉。人力资源经理需要采取正确的工作充实策略来持续促进这种感觉，从而培养职场参与度。
那么，该从哪里入手呢？有帮助的是，这些策略可分为四大类和技巧：
增加职位的难度和责任。例如，可以让团队成员在日常工作中拥有更多的自主权或控制权。
增加需要新技能的新任务。这将有助于增加角色的趣味性，促进团队成员的专业和个人发展。
让团队成员参与决策过程。这应该与团队成员的工作或部门相关，能让他们感觉到自己在工作中更有价值、更投入。
提供培训机会，促进职业发展。这样，员工就能在现有技能的基础上更上一层楼，避免停滞不前。
工作丰富化和工作扩大化有什么区别？
工作充实和工作扩展这两个词经常被混淆。我们知道，工作充实是指让工作变得更有趣、更有挑战性、更有回报--其中大部分涉及在工作中增加更有意义的任务。
然而，工作扩大化是指增加工作的广度，增加更多难度或技能水平相似的任务。这被认为是纵向的工作扩展，即在某一技能范围内增加职责，从而减少无聊感，但并不一定能提高工作积极性。
从本质上讲，这两种策略都是为了提高工作满意度，但工作丰富化是通过使工作更复杂、更有价值来实现的，而工作扩大化只是使工作更多样化。
工作丰富化有哪些好处？
以下是丰富工作内容能改善员工体验的好处：
提高工作满意度
当任务变得更加复杂、更有意义时，工作内容的丰富化会使工作更有满足感，从而使团队成员更加快乐，工作环境更加积极向上。
成功留住人才
对工作的满意度意味着你的优秀人才不太可能离开。这可以降低与高离职率相关的成本，也意味着企业在顶尖人才的掌舵下不断向前发展。
减少缺勤
美国雇主每年每小时员工的旷工成本为 3,600 美元。因此，当团队成员有参与感时，他们就会更加投入、更有动力，并随时准备投入最佳工作。
继任规划和职业发展
对员工提出挑战意味着你可以看到他们真正的潜力和能力。大家都知道，从公司内部招聘人才的成本效益要高得多，而丰富工作内容则是一种简便的方法，可以让你感觉到哪些人非常适合在未来担任更高级别的职位。
授权带来生产力
当人们感到自己有能力时，生产力就会开始飙升。授权有助于建立自尊，而自尊来自于自主、信任和责任。
工作丰富化有哪些挑战？
工作丰富化有很多好处，但与任何事情一样，它也伴随着潜在的挑战：
技能组合错位。新的任务和职责必须与团队成员的职业目标相一致。如果团队成员对复杂的任务不感兴趣，或者根本就不在自己的技能范围内，就会导致不满情绪的产生。
增加工作量。如果管理不当，工作丰富化可能会造成任务超负荷，从而导致倦怠。关键是要为员工提供资源和支持，以应对增加的责任。
需要培训和支持。承担新的技能和复杂的任务可能意味着团队成员需要额外的培训和持续的支持。这就需要对预算和资源管理进行细致的前瞻性观察，以确保培训成本不会飙升。
人力资源技术如何帮助丰富工作内容？
人力资源技术可以成为工作丰富化道路上的盟友。它可以帮助识别员工的优势和能力，使他们更容易匹配具有挑战性和满足感的任务和角色。反过来，这也可以通过识别准备好进行角色转换的人员，支持继任规划和职业发展。
提供反馈和认可空间的人力资源平台是工作丰富化的一个关键部分，尤其是在人们追求新技能和接受挑战的时候。为同事点赞是一种很好的激励方式，能让人们对自己的工作感到满意。
与此同时，人力资源平台还可以提供反馈功能，如员工满意度调查。这可以让您监测工作丰富化的效果如何，以及哪些方面需要改变。
以下为文章原文：
What is job enrichment?
Job enrichment is a motivational strategy that focuses on making the work people do more rewarding and satisfying. More specifically, job enrichment gives greater scope for personal achievement, more challenging work, more responsibility, and the opportunity for personal growth and development.
We all want to feel good about the work we’re doing, yet only 15% of people feel engaged with their work. This is where job enrichment plays a vital role, leading to happier, more motivated team members.
Examples of job enrichment
People like to feel challenged, accepted, and valued. HR managers need to adopt the right job enrichment strategies to facilitate this on an ongoing basis, so they can nurture workplace engagement.
So, where to start? Helpfully, these strategies fall into four main categories and techniques:
Increasing the level of difficulty and responsibility of a role. This could involve giving a team member more autonomy or control over their day-to-day tasks, for example.
Adding new tasks that require new skills. This will help make the role more interesting and add to the team member’s professional and personal development.
Making team members part of the decision-making process. This should be related to their job or department and can help people feel more valued and invested in their work.
Offering training opportunities to propel career development. So people can build on their existing skillset and stop stagnation from creeping in.
What’s the difference between job enrichment and job enlargement?
Job enrichment and job enlargement are terms that often get confused. We know that job enrichment is about making a job more interesting, challenging, and rewarding—and much of this involves adding more meaningful tasks into the mix.
However, job enlargement involves ramping up the breadth of a job and adding more tasks of a similar level of difficulty or skill. It’s thought of as vertical job expansion, where adding responsibilities within a skillset reduces boredom but doesn’t necessarily increase motivation.
In essence, both strategies aim to increase job satisfaction, but job enrichment does it by making a job more complex and rewarding, while job enlargement simply makes a job more varied.
What are the benefits of job enrichment?
Here are the benefits of job enrichment that will improve the employee experience:
Greater job satisfaction
When tasks are more complex and meaningful, job enrichment makes the job more satisfying—and you get happier team members and a more positive working environment as a result.
Success with retaining talent
Satisfaction in a job means your top talent will be less likely to leave. This can reduce the costs that are linked with high turnover rates, and also means that the business keeps moving forward with top talent at the helm.
Reduced absenteeism
Absenteeism costs U.S. employers $3,600 per hourly employee per year. It makes sense that when team members feel engaged they will be more present, more motivated, and turn up ready to do their best work.
Succession planning and career pathing
Challenging people means you can see their true potential and capabilities emerge. As you know, it’s far more cost-effective to recruit from within your company—and job enrichment is an easy way to sense-check who would be a great fit for higher-level roles in the future.
Empowerment leads to productivity
When people feel empowered, productivity starts to soar. Empowerment helps to build self-esteem, which springs from autonomy, trust, and responsibility.
What are the challenges with job enrichment?
Job enrichment comes with many benefits, but—like everything—it comes with potential challenges:
A misalignment of skillsets. It’s important that new tasks and responsibilities are in line with a team member’s career goals. Loading on complex tasks that aren’t of interest, or simply aren’t within a person’s skillset can actually lead to dissatisfaction.
Increased workload. When not managed properly, job enrichment can cause an overload of tasks that could result in burnout. It’s key that employees are given the resources and support to handle the increased responsibility.
A need for training and support. Taking on new skills and complex tasks may mean a team member needs extra training and ongoing support. This will need careful foresight to watch over budget and resource management to make sure training costs don’t spiral.
How can HR tech help with job enrichment?
HR tech can be an ally on the road to job enrichment. It can help identify the strengths and abilities of employees, making it easier to match them with tasks and roles that are challenging and satisfying. In turn, this can also support succession planning and career pathing by identifying the people who are ready for a role shift.
An HR platform that gives space for feedback and recognition is a key part of job enrichment, especially as people are reaching for new skillsets and taking on challenges. Giving kudos to colleagues can be a great way to motivate and make people feel good about their work.
Alongside this, HR platforms can offer a feedback feature such as an employee satisfaction survey. This lets you monitor how well job enrichment is working—and what needs to change.
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