Dejobbing – broadening the responsibilities of the company’s jobs, and encouraging employees not to limit themselves to what’s on their job descriptions is a result of the changes taking place in business today. Organizations need to grapple with trends like rapid product and technological change, global competition, deregulation, political instability, demographic changes, and a shift to a service economy. This has increased the need for firms to be responsive, flexible, and generally more competitive. In turn, the organizational methods managers use to accomplish this have helped weaken the meaning of job as a well-defined and clearly delineated set of responsibilities. Here is a sampling of organizational factors that have contributed to this weakening and to encouraging workers not to limit themselves to narrowly defined jobs.

This is the question which give most of us a big shock.. we had not came across this word at all during our course of study for HR.. The biased thing abt this is another class got notes about this topic which was given by our tutor.. sldn't all the notes given to students be fair and equal..

Huiting feedback to the lecturer about this and her reply was that there was nothing she can do. Is that all she can say. Although this affect our marks and not hers, but this sld not be the attititute.

2 more paper to go... Jia You..