Q. Show the problems with the Engineering approach?
Problems with the Engineering approach: after listening to several complains from the employees about their highly specialized jobs, Walker and Guest indicated the problems with jobs specialization thus:
1. Repetition: employees performed a few tasks repeatedly. This quickly led the employee to become very broad with the job. There was no challenge to the employee to learn anything new or to improve the job.
2. Mechanical pacing: assembly line workers were made to maintain a certain regular pace of work. They could not take a break when they needed to, or simply divert their attention to some other aspect of the job or to another individual.
3. No end product: employees found that they were not turning out any identifiable and product, consequently, they had little pride and enthusiasm in their work.
4. Little social interaction: employees complained that because the assembly line demanded constant attention, this was very little opportunity to interact on a causal basis with the other employees and share their work experiences, beliefs and sentiments.
5. No input: employees also complained that they had little chance to choose the methods by which they performed their jobs, the tools which they used, or the work procedures. This of course, created little interest in the job because there was nothing which they could improve or change.