Eric Redd graduated from college and was hired by a corporation that manufactured parts for the automotive industry. The employees on the assembly line seemed bored, and their motivation was low. Eric's employer decided to try to reorganize to increase productivity. During his career, Eric will see his job change from an engineer to a more complex job assignment.
-The jobs of assembly-line employees are to be changed to allow more tasks to be done by individual workers.This is a reduction in ________.
A)work specialization
B)departmentalization
C)chain of command
D)centralization

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Work specialization refers to breaking down a job into smaller, repetitive tasks. Reducing the number of tasks and increasing the variety of tasks assigned to individual workers is the opposite of work specialization.

Eric Redd Graduated from College and Was Hired by a Corporation