The Influence of Job Rotation, HR Strategy and Training on Employee Performance

What is it about?

The research examines how job rotation affects employee performance in the highly specialised and dangerous petrochemical industry and how HR strategy and training efficacy mediate this relationship. The research found that job rotation negatively affected employee performance. However, effective training and HR strategy positively mediated the relationship between job rotation and employee performance. This emphasises the need for effective training and an HR plan and strategy to support job rotation of skilled and specialist workers.

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Why is it important?

Past research has focused on job rotation's ability to increase managers' organisational understanding and minimising injury in blue collar work, leaving little research on job rotation within highly skilled and specialist industrial roles. Additionally, it has been highlighted within the literature that it remains unclear what supports effective job rotation. This study addresses this lacuna by investigating how job rotation affects employee performance in a highly skilled, specialized, and hazardous industry, and how strategy and training effectiveness mediate this effect. The findings that job rotation negatively affected employee performance, but that this relationship is positively mediated by effective training and HR strategy have managerial implications. Managers of specialised workers in hazardous industries, need to carefully consider how job rotation can be utilised for career development and ensure effective training and HR strategy is developed to support job rotation.