job enlargement

the expansion of the responsibilities associated with a particular job. In horizontal job enlargement (or horizontal loading), the employee is required to perform a greater number and variety of subtasks of the same level of complexity as his or her existing duties; in vertical job enlargement (or vertical loading), he or she is required to perform more complex tasks and to assume increased responsibility and autonomy.

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Psychology term of the day

May 9th 2024

psychonomic

adj. denoting an approach to psychology that emphasizes quantitative measurement, experimental control, and operational definitions, especially in the area of experimental, laboratory psychology. The word was coined to provide a name for the Psychonomic Society, which was created in 1959 by a number of experimental psychologists who were opposed to what they regarded as a swing in the American Psychological Association toward an emphasis on the mental health concerns of psychology. See experimental psychology.