Job enrichment is the process of building motivators into the job itself by making it more interesting and challenging. Here are some simple ways managers can enrich jobs: Delegate more variety and responsibility. Give employees challenging assignments that help them grow and develop new skills.

Form natural work groups. The work group can also perform its own identifiable work with increased responsibility. Make employees responsible for their own identifiable work. Let employees make the entire product rather than one part of it.

Give employees more autonomy. Allow employees to plan, schedule, organize, and control their own jobs. Making employees responsible for checking their own work eliminates the need for checkers. Job design is the employee’s system for transforming inputs into outputs. The more effective and efficient the method, the more productive the employee.

A common approach to job design is work simplification. The idea behind work simplification is to work smarter, not harder. Job simplification is the process of eliminating, combining, and/or changing the work sequence to increase performance.