Question

Elaine is very good at what she does, but she is constantly stressed by internal deadlines assigned to co-workers, obligatory meetings, and time lost in unrelated idle cubicle chatter. Today, after a meeting with her supervisor, she has been given more responsibility for her work, is able to set her own deadlines, decline attendance to various department meetings, and telecommute two days a week. Elaine’s boss is using which of the following organizational strategies to reduce her stress?A) Job redesignB) Organizational communicationC) Employee involvementD) Organizational developmentE) Process reengineering

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is A

Explanation:

Job redesign is a procedure or a process in which the elements of the job is restructured such as responsibilities, tasks and duties. It is done or performed to make the job to be more interesting, inspiring, exciting and encouraging for the employees of the company.

So, the boss on seeing that the employees are stressed by the internal deadlines, therefore, the boss uses the job redesign strategy in order to reduce the stress of the employees.

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