The meaning of job simplification

Job simplification is a method of job design that involves reduction of some tasks from a job for the aim of making a job easier and manageable. It also sometimes known as work simplification. 

The process of simplifying a job makes a job more focused and can result to increase in performance and productivity in an organization. Job simplification is an opposite of job enlargement whereby job enlargement (which is also a method of designing jobs) involves additional of tasks and roles to an existing job to make it more challenging. 

"Job simplification makes jobs more focused, minimizes costs and expenditure, avoids workload, increases performance, increases efficiency and productivity, reduces stress to the employees, helps employees to accomplish tasks in a required time, reduces errors as well as increases customers satisfaction due to increase in efficiency and productivity." - (Mzalendo boy)

Moreover, the methods of job design other than job simplification and job enlargement are job enrichment where a job is enriched with various motivators, job rotation where employees are moved from one job to another job and job crafting where employees themselves make little changes in their job.