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Josh has been thinking long and hard. As part of the latest workplace agreement, the company is about to embark on a program of job redesign for all non-salaried employees. Multi-skilling will be the major emphasis of this job redesign. The goal is to enhance flexibility, efficiency, and job satisfaction.
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Adapted from K. Cole (2005) Management Theory and Practice 3rd edition (French’s Forest, Sydney: Pearson Education Australia).
T. B. Baker (2009) The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies: Creating wealth from a new employment relationship (Brisbane: Australian Academic Press).
R. M. Kanter (1995) “Mastering change,” in S. Chawla and J. Renesch (eds) Learning Organizations: Developing cultures for tomorrow’s workplace (Portland, OR: Productivity Press), pp. 71–83.
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Baker, T. (2016). The Job Description and the New Contract. In: The End of the Job Description. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58146-4_5
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