Transfer

Question 1

is a process of placing employees in positions where they are likely to
be more effective or where they are to get more job satisfaction.

Answer 1

Transfer

Question 2

there is no change in the responsibility, designation, status or
salary. It is a process of employee’s adjustment with the work, time and place.
May also be made as a disciplinary action.

Answer 2

Transfer

Question 3

According to________-,

“is a change in job where the new job is substantially equal to the old in terms of pay, status and responsibilities”.

Answer 3

Edwin Flippo, TRANSFER

Question 4

is a movement of the employee from one job to another job or some
other place without change in status, responsibilities and salary.

Answer 4

Transfer

Question 5

means a change in job assignment. It refers to a horizontal or lateral
movement of an employee from one job to another in the same organization
without much change in his status or pay package.

Answer 5

Transfer

Question 6

To fulfill organizational needs
arising out of change in
technology, volume of
production, production
schedule, quality of product
etc., an employee may have
to be transferred.

Answer 6

To meet or fulfill
organizational needs

Question 7

Employees for excess or
surplus in one department
may have to be transferred
to other department or
section where there is
shortage of workforce.

Answer 7

To adjust the
workforce

Question 7

Sometimes employees
themselves demand transfer
due to their personal problems
like ill health, family problem

native attractiveness or non-
co-operation from boss or

fellow workers. To satisfy their
needs employees may have to

be transferred.

Answer 7

To satisfy employee needs

Question 8

If the employees have stayed
on a job continuously for a
longer duration, to reduce
their monotony and to widen
their knowledge and skill,
employees are transferred.

Answer 8

To reduce monotony
and to make the
employees versatile

Question 9

If the management feels that
the service of the able
employee is to be used in
different branches of the
same organisation, then such
employees will have to be
transferred.

Answer 9

For effective use of
employees

Question 10

If employees are found
indulged in undesirable
activities like fraud, bribery,
duping etc., such employees
are transferred to remote
places as a disciplinary
action.

Answer 10

To punish Employees

Question 10

To improve employees
background by placing
them in different jobs of
various departments and
units.

Question 10

Employees who are
overburdened and doing
complicated or risky work for
long period are relieved from
such work by transferring
such employees to a place of
their choice.

Answer 10

To give the relief to
the employees

Question 10

are those which occur by desire of the
employee and are primarily in his interest.

Answer 10

Personal Transfer

Question 11

The reasons for such requests could be:
(1) To correct erroneous placement.
(2) To relieve the monotony of a job, acquire better working
conditions and join friends/spouse.
(3) To avoid interpersonal conflicts.
(4) In consideration of the interests of age/health, education
of children, housing difficulties or to join immobile
dependents.
(5) The feeling that opportunity for advancement is better in
another department.
(6) A search for creative opportunities.

Question 12

Organization Initiated Transfer

The organization may initiate transfers for the
following reasons:

(1) The need for temporary adjustment for the
convenience or benefit of the organization or the
employee, such as leave replacement or very short
assignments.
(2) To meet emergencies or charges in operations or to
deal with fluctuations in works requirements,
necessitate either by volume of output or separation.
(3) To make use of the increasing versatility and
competence of key employees.

Question 13

Employees are posted in different departments,
based on their interests and qualifications. This
also depends on the work load that a department
possesses. However, this load keeps fluctuating,
and the demand for manpower keeps changing
with time.

For departments with surplus manpower, lay-off is
a solution. However, a better solution is the
interdepartmental transfer to balance the
manpower allocation. In simpler terms,
production transfer refers to the transfers ordered
to avoid such unavoidable lay-offs.

Answer 13

Production Transfer

Question 14

When an employee leaves a department for a
particular reason, the department needs a
replacement. In such scenarios, especially in
demanding situations, a senior employee might
have to function in place of the junior employee,
till the time a replacement is found. Senior
employees are required to work in place of junior
employees even in situations of declining
production. Thus, replacement transfer also helps
in reducing the organizational need for lay-off;
particularly for long-service employee.

Answer 14

Replacement Transfer

Question 15

Some organizations believe that the workforce needs to have
multiple skills capable to perform multiple tasks. People can
achieve multiple skills only by working in different
departments. In learning organizations such as ordnance
factories, banks, and many private companies, people get the
scope of working in different departments and can learn
different systems, procedures, and rules and regulations.

They gain the necessary skills to attend to the activities in the
departments, and ultimately become versatile. People who
pick up their tasks quickly emerge to become the company’s
assets. During rush periods, they are able to contribute
greatly to achieve business goals. Versatile transfer may
comprise production transfer or replacement transfer.

Answer 15

Versatility Training

Question 15

In order to enhance capacity utilization, industrial
organizations, operate in multiple shifts—generally
morning, evening, and night shifts. Some
organizations allot employees to staggered shifts as
well. Employees are engaged in all the shifts on a
rotational basis. Requests of employees for transfers
on a particularly shift are also entertained,
considering the importance of ground of requests.
However, conformance to law and administrative
procedures are essential requirements to avoid
employee unrest.

Answer 15

Shift Transfer

Question 16

After induction, employees are placed in a department and
jobs are assigned to him/ her, and their performance and
behavioral dispositions are recorded. Some employees may
emerge as good performers, while many others may emerge
as underperformers. In course of time, an employee’s
inclination to work is also observed. The objective of
remedial transfer is therapeutic in nature, that is, to rectify
the wrong placement.

In other words, remedial transfer is an act of transferring an
employee to a more suitable job after they have failed to
perform well in their present position. Poor performance
could be attributed to reasons such as an employee being
uncomfortable in his job as he may not possess good
relations with his senior or suffer from ill health.

Answer 16

Remedial Transfer