Purchase Solution

HR - Helping put a positive spin on forced job rotations

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Job rotation has many positive aspects especially when an employee is seeking to transfer to another location or is in line for a promotion. What are the positive and negative aspects of the downward move associated with job rotation? What would you do as a training performance improvement specialist to put a positive spin on what is perceived by an employee as a negative move?

Purchase this Solution

Solution Summary

Many companies utilize job rotation to grow their employees' knowledge of the different aspects inside the organization. Job rotation helps a company become more efficient and more productive as the workforce becomes more knowledgeable and people rotate through the different positions. There are different types of rotations inside a company, vertical, lateral, and downward being the most common (Ortega, 2009).

Solution Preview

Many companies utilize job rotation to grow their employees' knowledge of the different aspects inside the organization. Job rotation helps a company become more efficient and more productive as the workforce becomes more knowledgeable and people rotate through the different positions. There are different types of rotations inside a company, vertical, lateral, and downward being the most common (Ortega, 2009).

For most people, they believe that success is always going up the ladder, so, any form of rotation that is not perceived as "upward" can have a negative impact. When a company purposefully decides to ...

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Cost Concepts: Analyzing Costs in Managerial Accounting

This quiz gives students the opportunity to assess their knowledge of cost concepts used in managerial accounting such as opportunity costs, marginal costs, relevant costs and the benefits and relationships that derive from them.

Basic Social Media Concepts

The quiz will test your knowledge on basic social media concepts.

MS Word 2010-Tricky Features

These questions are based on features of the previous word versions that were easy to figure out, but now seem more hidden to me.

Production and cost theory

Understanding production and cost phenomena will permit firms to make wise decisions concerning output volume.

Understanding Management

This quiz will help you understand the dimensions of employee diversity as well as how to manage a culturally diverse workforce.