MHR 749 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Analysis, Focus Group, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 749
• Professor: Margaret Yap

Document Summary

Job analysis: the systematic process of collecting information about the nature of specific jobs, helps determine pay based on what jobs do. Involves the identification and description of what is happening on the job (required tasks, duties, and responsibilities, required knowledge and skills, working conditions: results are used to describe and value work. Job family grouping of related jobs with broadly similar content. Job identification job titles, departments, and the number of people who hold that job; must fit into the budget. Job context elemental tasks or units of work, with emphasis on the purpose of each task: employee characteristics internal relationships, external relationships. Methods of collecting job information: ca(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)e (cid:373)ethods, (cid:271)ut all fi(cid:448)e should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e used at the sa(cid:373)e ti(cid:373)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s (cid:374)ot effective. Position analysis questionnaire: a structured job analysis checklist that includes 194 items or job elements used to rate a job which are incorporated into 6 dimensions.