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A firm wants to raise productivity by redesigning jobs so that workers perform a wider variety of tasks at the same skill level, reducing monotony. This approach is best described as:

This is job enlargement. It widens a job by adding more tasks at the same skill level, which lessens monotony and can lift motivation and productivity, unlike job evaluation, which only ranks jobs for pay purposes.

  1. AJob enlargementCorrect
  2. BJob retrenchment
  3. CJob evaluation
  4. DVertical integration

Explanation

Adding more tasks of a similar level to a job is job enlargement, which aims to reduce monotony and improve motivation. Job evaluation ranks jobs for pay, and the other options are unrelated to job design.

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