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	Job rotation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In leadership development, an approach to management development is job rotation where an individual is moved through a schedule of assignments designed to give him or her a breadth of exposure to the entire operation.
		Job rotation is also practiced to allow qualified employees to gain more insights into the processes of a company and to increase job satisfaction through job variation.
		However, an under reported aspect of job rotation is an increase in income for the people who participate regardless of whether or not there is a promotion involved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Job_rotation (289 words)

	Rotation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, it is used to denote (in 3D) the rotation of movement of a rigid body in such a way that any given point of that body remains at a constant distance from some fixed line (in 2D: point).
		The retail practice of rotating stock (especially fresh produce/bread) to ensure the stock with the soonest sell by date is at the front of the shelf - meaning it will be sold first.
		In baseball pitching, the rotation is the group of starting pitchers for a team, and the order in which they pitch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rotation_(disambiguation) (298 words)

	EUROPA - Regional Policy Inforegio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Job rotation is a continuing education and training model that is widely practised in Denmark and in several other European countries, notably Germany.
		The country's experience has shown job rotation to be a very flexible arrangement - each model can be geared to the needs of a particular business - and successful in terms of creating new jobs - many unemployed people are taken on permanently by the business after the project has been implemented and phased out.
		A job rotation project is set up by a variety of partners, including representatives of the business, the public employment service, the employees' association, the training centre and the unemployment fund.
	europa.eu.int /comm/regional_policy/innovation/innovating/pacts/tp/list/sto-en.html (1304 words)

	Dr. John Sullivan's - The Orientation "ToolKit" Part 2
		Rotations can also be based on an allocation of time where an employee works at their regular job for specific period (like mornings) and during the rest of the day they rotate to another department or project.
		Job rotation may be especially valuable for organizations that require firm-specific skills because it provides an incentive to organizations to promote from within because that is when they are most likely to find the needed skill sets.
		Job rotations should be perceived as voluntary from the employees point of view if it's going to have the intended developmental effects.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/gately/pp15js25.htm (2816 words)

	WZB - Labor Market Policy and Employment - Discussion Paper FS I 98-207 Abstract
		Job rotation as an important element of labour market policy has only a rather short tradition in most Member States of the European Union, except in the scandinavian countries.
		The transnational partnership "job rotation" was founded at the end of 1995 and financing for job rotation projects came mainly from the Community Initiative ADAPT, but also from the European Structural Funds.
		Job rotation here is defined as the combination of further training for the employed and substitution by a previously unemployed person.
	www.wz-berlin.de /ars/ab/abstracts/i98-207.en.htm (462 words)

	Individual Learning Strategies: Job Rotations
		Job Rotation is a career development strategy where an individual temporarily moves laterally into an established or "shadow" position.
		Job Rotations usually require the employee to suspend his or her current job duties.
		While job rotation is not a formal "program" at Lilly, rotating employees from job to job has, for many years, been viewed as an integral part of the company's culture of professional development.
	www.humtech.com /opm/grtl/ils/ils1.cfm (470 words)

	Library Trends: Job rotation in an academic library: damned if you do and damned if you don't! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Job rotation comes in many forms and is useful in many situations.
		Job rotation is the systematic movement of employees from one job to another.
		These comments focus attention on three key challenges: the determination of the type of job rotation, the clarification of the process of changing the work structure itself, and the communication to all about the type of staff training and the length of the learning period.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1387/is_4_50/ai_90219527 (1306 words)

	Promotions, Transfers & Layoffs
		Jobs can be grouped into different ladders such that experience on one job constitutes good training for the next.
		Transfers and job rotation are forms of enlargement entailing movement from one job to another of comparable responsibility.
		In a dairy, for instance, workers may be part of a job rotation cycle from milking to cow feeding to calf feeding.
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /ucce50/ag-labor/7labor/04.htm (3141 words)

	Examples
		Sabriye Sibel Erkilic - Job Rotation and Applications in Industry - Companies have been using job rotation for years because job rotation is a method to achieve many different human resources objectives.
		Job rotation is a systematic movement of employees from job to job within a company.
		The third article discusses how job rotation is applied in Japan and the US and what factors are causing differences between two countries.
	webs.twsu.edu /whitman/ex_papers.htm (2199 words)

	Retaining the Best Talent for Software Development > Compensation Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For starters, since job rotation programs are by nature cross-organizational, the support of the president or other executives whom all the organizations report to is needed to ensure success of the program.
		Job rotation seems to work best when the work is done at the target organization's work location.
		For a home location rotation, the rotation manager and the regular manager must make an extra effort to make sure that the employee isn't interrupted in the rotation by his or her regular job duties.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=23769 (2873 words)

	POM notes - Joseph Martinich
		The job content is the set of tasks the worker is supposed to perform, or the set of problem areas for which the worker is responsible.
		Job enrichment is usually of greatest value when at least some of the added tasks or responsibilities require greater use of the worker's capabilities, such as creativity, pattern recognition, interpersonal communication, or problem-solving.
		Job Rotation is an organizational structure whereby workers work in teams and exchange jobs on a periodic basis (as frequently as hourly or possibly daily or weekly).
	www.umsl.edu /~jmartini/pomnotes/owebjobdesign.htm (1371 words)

	New Forms of Work Organization, Skills and Training - July 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The relationship between participation in job rotation and enrollment in classroom training is fairly consistent between the two years.
		If changes in job tasks from the introduction of new product lines, technologies or procedures are the primary cause of the link between participation in problem-solving teams and classroom training, there will be more variation in the relationship between participation in problem-solving teams and classroom training from year-to-year than there would be otherwise.
		In the 2000 sub-sample, there is a positive relationship between: participation in formal job rotation (for office and science and health employees) and on-the-job training, and participation in formal problem-solving teams (for all three occupational groups) and on-the-job training.
	www11.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/cs/sp/hrsdc/arb/publications/research/2003-002356/page10.shtml (1381 words)

	Job rotation & how it works
		In 2003, when LG carried out a large-scale job rotation exercise in its manufacturing and research and development division, the planning began a year earlier.
		LG officials, too, admit that job rotation didn't work with fresh management recruits, who were uncomfortable with the idea of being planted in various functions.
		Job rotation can be a boost for good performers.
	www.rediff.com /money/2005/apr/27spec1.htm (729 words)

	Notes From Ivancevich
		Job relationships are determined by the interpersonal relationships of a group as well as by the design of the given job.
		Job enlargement involves increasing the number of tasks an individual is committed to do in a given organization.
		Job design may be resisted by labor unions who see the effort as an attempt to get more work for the same pay e.
	www.cedu.niu.edu /~fulmer/leea600/six.htm (980 words)

	UNM Department of Human Resources - Compensation - Career Development
		Job Enrichment is a career development program for employees who wish to expand their skills by learning different job duties.
		Job Enrichment is a good way to add variety to your work day, to add new challenges to your job, and/or to try out new skills for future career development.
		The two staff might propose a job rotation program after their training is complete, where they rotate jobs for a summer.
	www.unm.edu /~hr/comp/cardev/job.htm (1527 words)

	Articles
		Also, mandatory rotation guarantees that no one in the detective unit will ever be truly experienced since, by it's very nature, mandatory rotation demands that all experienced officers are transferred out of their assignment as soon as they begin to gain experience and master acquired skills.
		The practice of "Job Rotation" has been used by the private sector for a number of years, but it is used for a wide variety of different reasons.
		Experts in the private sector also caution that when job rotation is used for the purpose of job enrichment, job rotation should not be used in an attempt to cure job burnout because poor job performance will almost certainly follow the marginal performer from his original assignment to the new one.
	www.practicalhomicide.com /articles/rotation.htm (5822 words)

	Is Job Rotation A Motivator Or A Punishment? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Job rotation is not a good practice when used as a "cure" for job burnout and employee performance issues.
		In summary, the practice of job rotation is a dubious one from an organizational perspective.
		Be careful that job rotation does not become an unintentional reward for poor productivity or for creating problems in the workplace.
	websearch.entrepreneur.com /article/0,4621,288243,00.html (734 words)

	JOB ROTATION/SHARING POLICIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Job sharing and rotation opportunities are mutually beneficial to individual employees and to the Libraries as a whole.
		Rotation Sharing Agreement that is signed by the employee, the employee's supervisor and department head, and the sharing/rotation supervisor forwards the Agreement to the Committee, c/o Human Resources Officer, who distributes copies to all persons signing the agreement in the sharing/rotation file and files the original agreement in the employee's personnel file.
		This agreement documents the two cooperating departments, the objectives of the sharing/rotation position, the job duties of the position, the scheduled work hours in the sponsoring department, the length of the assignment (including the beginning and ending dates), and a schedule for the evaluations required for the assignment.
	www.indiana.edu /~libpers/jspolicies.html (734 words)

	Job design and work organization
		As early as 1950 in the USA job rotation and job enlargement were being both advocated and tested as means for overcoming boredom at work with all its associated problems.
		The new jobs are often only a marginal improvement in terms of the degree of repetition, the skill demands and the level of responsibility; as a result workers have not always responded positively to such change.
		Whilst job enrichment is based on a theory resulting from research carried out by Herzberg and his colleagues, the research is not itself without its critics.
	www.accel-team.com /work_design/wd_02.html (715 words)

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		Job rotation can be implemented in a variety of different ways, however, it centres around the core principles of drawing unemployed people into the labour market to act as replacement workers whilst existing employees are released for further training.
		Job rotation was brought to the UK in the mid-1990s and a small number of programmes have been developed across the UK.
		The aim of this transnational partnership is to aid the development of job rotation across the EU and to “contribute to the development of lifelong learning in the EU andplay an active role in the battle against unemployment” (EU Jobrotation 1997).
	www.geog.qmw.ac.uk /staff/pdf/report1.doc (5063 words)

	JOB ROTATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When asked what they want out of their job, a majority of Canadians say they want work that is challenging and interesting.
		Job rotation is believed to boost innovation by enabling workers to apply knowledge of one task to others.
		For instance, those employed in firms of under 20 employees are least likely to be engaged in job rotation or cross-training, with 84 percent of them indicating that they never do so, compared with 80 percent of workers in firms with 500 or more employees.
	www.jobquality.ca /indicator_e/des001.stm (309 words)

	DHS Adminstrative Policy: Job Rotation and Developmental Assignment Reimbursements
		Establish a consistent practice of reimbursement to sending employers for payments made to employees on job rotation or developmental assignment.
		Job rotations and developmental assignments allow employees to increase their knowledge and skill.
		Job Rotations and Developmental Assignments will not begin until a Memorandum of Agreement has been signed by the employee, sending supervisor and receiving supervisor.
	www.dhs.state.or.us /policy/admin/fs/040_005.htm (340 words)

	SQM
		A key component of most leadership programs, job rotation is designed as a strategy to retain high-quality employees.
		BACK UP Once job rotation practices are in place, employees can fill empty shoes without hesitation, eliminating a cause for alarm should, for example, the regularly scheduled bartender call in sick.
		Job rotation enables employees to explore their own strengths and weaknesses.
	www.sqm.ca /NewSQMsi.nsf/article25.htm (649 words)

	Careers - Graduated
		Job rotation gives you the opportunity to try various kinds of careers before you make your final decision.
		The choice is yours – those who have chosen job rotation at Grundfos are today employees at Grundfos.
		In addition to that, the period of rotation gave me technical knowledge, which would usually be difficult to achieve without several job changes.
	www.grundfos.com /web/grfosweb.nsf/vDocuments/F192600E36E0AFB8C1256DC90025BA77?OpenDocument (528 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Job Rotation is an innovative new scheme which allows employees of firms and unemployed to acquire new skills simultaneously.
		Job Rotation will initially cover the Greater Belfast area but will be rolled out province-wide in the future.
		"Job Rotation is unique because it simultaneously tackles key training issues at each rung of the workplace ladder and embraces a culture of lifelong learning," explains David Crawford, WEA's Programme Manager.
	www.mln.org.uk /jobrot.asp (399 words)

	Workshop Rotation Model Homepage
		Rotation churches and individuals across the country who have volunteered to help churches in their region learn more about the Model.
		Rotation.org is a volunteer created not-for-profit site sponsored by Workshop Rotation churches and individuals who believe in freely sharing their ideas, enthusiasm and lesson materials with others.
		The names "Workshop Rotation Model, "Workshop Rotation," and "Rotation Model" and the Rotation logo are trademarked.
	www.rotation.org (542 words)

	Managementor
		Job rotation is one such popular administrative control tool that was introduced during the 1950s by the founder of IBM, Thomas Watson.
		Job rotation removes the employees from stressful situations and provides them with temporary relief.
		Job rotation through the years has evolved as a tool; to combat absenteeism, promote high employee turnover and overcome CTD and RSI.
	www.themanagementor.com /KMailer/HR/KM_HR_hrPracticesJobrotation.asp (667 words)

	People and Organisations - Motivation in Practice - Job Rotation
		Job rotation involves the movement of employees through a range of jobs in order to increase interest and motivation.
		Job rotation can improve “multi-skilling” but also involves the need for greater training.
		Job rotation may offer the advantage of making it easier to cover for absent colleagues, but it may also reduce' productivity as workers are initially unfamiliar with a new task.
	www.tutor2u.net /business/people/motivation_financial_jobrotation.asp (264 words)

	Halfbakery: The Ultimate Job Rotation
		You would receive that job's pay for the week or two you put in.
		For instance the brain surgeon issue; if the brain surgeon was participating in the job lottery, he/she would have to make sure their schedule was clear...etc..etc Ride alongs have been done.
		College Student is not a job, it's a 24 hour free for all with an occasional class attented.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/The_20Ultimate_20Job_20Rotation (597 words)

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