Job Rotation as a Learning Mechanism
分析企业通过工作轮换了解员工生产力和岗位盈利性的成本与收益，发现当对员工和岗位存在较大不确定性时，轮换优于专业化，且该理论比基于员工动机或学习的解释更符合现有证据。
This article analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism with which the firm can learn about the employees' productivities and the profitability of different jobs or activities. I compare job rotation to an assignment policy where employees specialize in one job along their career. The gains from adopting a job rotation policy are larger when there is more prior uncertainty about employees and activities. I argue that this firm learning theory fits the existing evidence on rotation better than alternative explanations based on employee motivation and employee learning.