... hierarchy to their subordinates. o Empowerment. This involves a manager giving his subordinates a degree of power over their work (i.e. it enables the subordinates to be fairly autonomous and to decide for themselves the best way to approach a problem). o Job enlargement. This involves increasing the number of tasks which are involved in performing a particular job, in order to motivate and multi-skill the employees. o Job enrichment. This is a method of motivating employees by giving them more responsibilities and the opportunity to use their initiative. o Quality circles. This is a group of workers that meets at regular intervals in order to identify any problems with quality within production, consider alternative solutions to these problems, and then recommend to management the solution that they believe will be the most successful. o Teamworking. This is the opposite production technique to an assembly-line which uses an extreme division of labour. Teamworking ...

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