Revisiting Job Rotation and Stress

Revisiting Job Rotation and Stress

Hitu Sood, Chin Ean Ong
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3937-1.ch017
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Abstract

There is scant research on job rotation and stress; however, as workplaces undergo major transformation due to the pandemic, this topic takes on significance in the emerging hybrid work environment. Literature illustrates that job rotation is known to enhance employee interest, reduce physical stress on employees involved in physical jobs, improve employees' skills and confidence, and provide relief from exhaustion due to repetitive tasks as well as due to psychologically negative jobs. However, learning new skills, performing new tasks, and reporting to new people can hinder employee performance and cause stress that negatively impacts employee well-being. This conundrum needs more insight given the current changes brought on due to the pandemic, which has led to more hybrid and/or virtual workplaces, changes in work organization, and altered working styles. Therefore, the way job rotation is conducted and organized needs an overhaul too.
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Research Method

A systematic literature review was chosen due to its capacity to summarize the current knowledge on a specific domain by selecting and screening specific published peer-reviewed papers that meet the study's main aim (Eriksson & Lindström, 2006; Oxman, 1994). This method is adopted to summarize and synthesize evidence from relevant literature about JR and stress and identify any new areas within JR and stress that require further exploration.

Fundamentally, knowledge advancement must be built on prior existing work. To push the knowledge frontier, we must know where the frontier is. By conducting a systematic literature review, we understand the breadth and depth of the existing body of work and identify directions to explore. Essentially, a systematic literature review also pushes researchers to look for studies outside their subject areas through the introduction of extensive searching methods, predefined search strings, and standard inclusion and exclusion criteria (Robinson and Lowe 2015), which helps to probe into existing scholarly articles on job rotation and stress.

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