BUSI 4320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Job Analysis, Job Performance, The Sequence

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUSI 4320
• Professor: Lorne Sulsky

Document Summary

Job analysis: systematic study of a job to discover its specifications, skill requirements, and so on, for wage-setting, recruitment, training, or job-design purposes. Position: collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by an individual. Job analysis questionnaires: checklists used to collect information about jobs in a uniform measure. Interview: approach to collect job- and performance-related information by a face-to-face meeting with jobholder, typically using a standardized checklist of questions. Focus group: a face-to-face meeting with five to seven knowledgeable experts on a job and a facilitator to collect job- and performance- related information. Questionnaires: standardized surveys to collect information about jobs, working conditions, and other performance-related information. Employee log: approach to collecting job- and performance-related information by asking the jobholder to summarize tasks, activities, and challenges in a diary format. Observation: an approach to collecting job- and performance-related information by direct observation of jobholders by a specialist. Combination: concurrent use of two or more job analysis techniques (e. g. , interviews and observation).