Employee Development on a Shoestring

Chapter 6

MOVE AND STRETCH: LEARNING THROUGH ROTATIONAL AND STRETCH ASSIGNMENTS

WHAT IS A ROTATIONAL ASSIGNMENT?

A job rotation assignment is a career development strategy that can be defined as the temporary assignment of an employee to a different job, usually laterally, in another role in the same organization, for an agreed-upon period of time. The rotational job may be in the same team or department, in a new department in the same division or business unit, or in a different business unit or line of service altogether. This temporary new job may allow the employee to use existing skills in a different setting or may require the employee to learn a new set of skills in order to function in the new role. Rotations may commonly be assigned ...