Term of the Day Friday, September 30, 2016
division of labor
Definition
An approach to the completion of a complex task which involves breaking the task into a number of simpler tasks and assigning these tasks to specialists who generally perform only their assigned task.
Use division of labor in a sentence
“ I knew we had to implement some division of labor because doing it as one big workload would be too much. ”
“ You should always try to get the right division of labor so that your office is running more efficiently together. ”
“ My boss was an expert at taking a team of employees and dividing up tasks based on expertise to achieve results through division of labor. ”
