Work specialization (Elements in organizational design). Traditional view and today’s view,”Dividing work activities into separate job tasks. It allows organizations to efficiently use the diversity of skills that workers have.Traditional view. Believed that work specialization could lead to great increases in productivity. In the beginning, this was true. But later, the human boredom, stress, low productivity
etc. outweighed the economic advantages.• Today’s view. Work specialization is important because it helps employees to be more efficient. But managers also have to recognize its limitation.”