Management and Organizational Studies 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Business Partner, Job Design, Job Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021
• Professor: Sarah Ross

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Responsibilities of human resources: administrative services and transactions, administrative tasks (responding to questions about benefits), paperwork, business partner services, developing hr systems to help organizations attract, keep, and develop people with the skills it needs. Hr processionals must understand the business, to understand what it needs: strategic partner, contributing to company"s strategy through an understanding of its existing and needed human resources and ways hr practices can give the company a competitive advantage. Hr professionals must understand the business, its industry, and its competitors. Job analysis is the process that identifies tasks, duties, responsibilities, required qualifications, skill and knowledge etc. for an individual for a job. Job analysis is done for recruitment, to evaluation the employee"s need of training and evaluation. On the other hand, job design is allocation of tasks to an employee or group of employees in an organization. Job design determines those job, tasks and responsibilities and employee (group) have to perform.