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Structure wherein which employees work collaboratively on tasks sharing responsibilities and job roles. It helped grow the economy.

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Tobacco changed their way of life forever.

. It reduced the amount of trade. Another advantage of job specialization is an increased level of morale across employees. The main highlight here is that time is not wasted by switching over from one job to another and hence workflow is continuously leading to high productivity.

Job specialization makes you a more competitive employee because its better for a company to have highly specialized workers in a given area than those who have a base-level understanding of required job duties. Remedied through job design techniques. The Neolithic revolution lead to specialization.

It created equal opportunities. Machinery can also be equipped along with specialized and skilled workers which further enhances productivity. Even when people can change tasks quickly their mental attention lingers on the previous task which slows down performance on the new task.

Compared to working on new tasks the repetitive execution of similar tasks can cause workers to achieve a level of expertise in which no conscious effort is necessary for task completion Fisher 1993. Job specialization is the degree to which the overall task of the organization is broken down into smaller component parts. Therefore this will lead to an increase in labour productivity and firms will be able to benefit from economies of scale lower average costs with increased output and increased efficiency.

As a result when a critical expertise is lost the process can suffer. Workers will require less training to be an efficient worker. Hence once the recruitment process is initiated everyone would be looking out for the positions advertised which indicates the specialization they are experts in.

The downside of job specialization tends to be that people can only do one task. The aggregate impacts of specialization on the economy are massive. This is because the Neolithic revolution allowed people to settle down and begin to do other jobs instead of hunting.

It led to the stratified societies where some jobs were more valuable than others apex. One reason for this higher efficiency is that employees spend less time changing activities because they have fewer tasks to juggle. Occasionally people who specialize in a field develop new techniques or new technologies that lead to huge increases in.

Despite the appeal of specialization recent studies have questioned its beneﬁts on theoretical and empir-ical grounds. E The structure is more adaptable to the environment. Job specialization saves time and leads to less wastage of materials.

A Decisions can be made by consensus. Specialisation occurs when workers are assigned specific tasks within a production process. B There is less effect on the organization in a rapidly changing market.

Departmentalization on the other hand is the grouping of jobs. For instance high specialization has been found to cause workers to lose motivation and interest in their jobs which in turn can harm perfor-mance Loukidou et al. C Managers do not become overwhelmed with decision making.

They arent trained to multitask or handle multiple areas of a workplace. Job production advantages and disadvantages. What best explains the effect of job specialization during the neolithic revolution.

What effect did job specialization have on ancient Egypt. The drawback of specialization have compelled modern organizations to seek alternative approaches for designing jobs such as job rotation jo b enlargement and job enrichment Adeyoyin et al. Also known as cross-functional structure.

Additionally workers under job specialization dont have a wide. Definition of job specialization in other words it is actually a division of labour wherein it is realized that by giving more emphasis on the scope of activities productivity increases. Specialized tasks are repetitive which can cause employees to grow bored and dissatisfied with work.

Specialization changed peoples roles in society. Job specialization potentially improves work efficiency. Before the incredible introduction of tobacco Virginia was mostly a series of small farms and communities packed together like sardines.

D It can become a more complex structure quickly and efficiently. The Virginia Colonys economy relied heavily on the mass production of tobacco. For instance high specialization has been found to cause workers to lose motivation and interest in their jobs which in turn can harm performance Loukidou et al.

The structure is more adaptable to the environment.

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