Zekelia Freeman, a merchandise manager at JCPenney, has just been informed by her superior that all managers in the store have been reassigned departments of responsibility because top management has done some reorganising.Zekelia previously was in charge of the infants' department and the girls' department, and now she is also in charge of the boys' department.This is an example of
A) job enlargement.
B) job enrichment.
C) the MBO programme in progress.
D) job redesign.
E) job modification.

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Job enlargement involves increasing the number of tasks or responsibilities in a job, which is what happened when Zekelia was given additional responsibility for the boys' department.

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