How a job is designed has tremendous impact on the effectiveness of the organization and the quality of work life for employees. Given the importance of job design, it should be tied directly to the strategic and goals of the organization. Job design can be thought of as a blue print of tasks required to accomplish a job successfully. Job design and redesign techniques have become more complex due to the downsizing that has plagued many organizations. Essentially, fewer challenging jobs are available and employees placed in jobs for which they are clearly overqualified.
Job design may be defined as a structure of different jobs of an organization to be performed. It is a framework or format which shows the various tasks of an organization required to be completed to discharge the assigned responsibility to the employees.