Job Rotation

The Bureaucracy Reform held by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia has eight agendas; one of them is to reform the system of HRD. The purpose of such agenda is to build personnel who have integrity and to be qualified, professional, modern, and prosperous personnel. 

The agenda is undergone by doing job analysis and job rotation. The job analysis is discussed earlier, and this posting I’d like to talk about the job rotation.

Job rotation is considered as an effective tool in applying the Strategic Human Resource Management. In a nutshell, job rotation is about settling employees at the right place where they can produce their maximum results.

Finding the right person at the right place can be done by doing an open recruitment, however doing it requires lots of time, energy, and not to mention, money. Finding the most suitable people and shifting them to take on responsibilities of a higher level is a tough task. Job rotation has proved to be an effective method to find the immediate replacement of a high-worth employee within the organization. Job rotation helps HR managers determine who can be replaced by whom and create a suitable and beneficial fit.

Job rotation has some benefits:

1.     To help managers explore the hidden talent;

2.     To help individuals explore their interests;

3.     To identify knowledge, skills, and attitude;

4.     To motivate employees to deal with new challenges;

5.     To increase satisfaction and to decrease attrition rate;

6.     To help align competencies with requirements.

Job rotation at Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia

Earlier in 2011, the ministry had made structural adjustment inside the organization. The echelon personnel were distributed to other departments inside the ministry. These job rotations along with the adjustment of the organizational structure were meant to create an effective and efficient organization. And the purpose of the job rotation is an alternative to reduce the boredom caused due to repetitiveness of tasks and revive their willingness to handle a job and challenges involved in it with same excitement and enthusiasm.