Why might practicing managers and industrial engineers be skeptical about job enrichment and socio-technical approaches to job design?

Answer 1

Job enrichment by definition moves away from specialization which, from a purely mechanical standpoint is the most efficient way of work. Sociotechnical approaches include job enrichment as a design strategy and in addition emphasize worker and work group autonomy. Thus, managers and industrial engineers have legitimate concerns about the implications of these approaches on output, planning and control.