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Job enrichment

Meaning in business english, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In business english, job enrichment means: Changing a job to give the worker greater responsibility, control or opportunities for meaningful development.

In Turkish: iş zenginleştirme

How it is used

Used in job design. Enrichment adds meaningful responsibility or autonomy; simply adding more similar tasks is usually called job enlargement.

Example sentences

  1. The job enrichment programme allowed service advisers to solve routine refund cases without seeking approval each time.

    The role gains decision authority rather than just more cases.

  2. Staff questioned whether the redesign offered job enrichment or merely additional paperwork.

    The distinction is between meaningful role development and extra burden.

Common collocations

  • introduce job enrichment
  • support job enrichment
  • workloadThe amount of work that a person or a team has to do in a given period of time.
  • decision rightsThe formal authority to make certain decisions in an organization, including which role may approve, reject, or choose among options.

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