Printer Press Prestige, a publishing company, conducted an internal survey on employee satisfaction. The results indicated that a majority of its support staff considered their jobs to be monotonous. In order to change this, management decided to combine the job duties of assistants, typists, and file clerks into a single job that requires all three kinds of work. Which technique of job design did this move constitute?
A) job analysis
B) job review
C) job identification
D) job evaluation
E) job extension

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This move constitutes job extension, which involves combining tasks from different jobs to create a new job that involves a wider variety of tasks and responsibilities.

Printer Press Prestige, a Publishing Company, Conducted an Internal Survey