Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Resource Management, Paq, Job Design

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

Document Summary

Job analysis: the process of getting detailed information about jobs, traditionally, emphasized the study of existing jobs to make decisions about employee selection, training, compensation, the building block for everything that hr does. Job design: the process of defining the way work will be performed and the tasks that given job requires, traditionally, emphasized efficiency and motivation. Often an organization seeks to redesign work to make it more efficient or improve quality. Similar to analyzing a job that doesn"t exist yet. As planners analyze human resource needs and how to meet them, they must have accurate info about the level of skill required in various jobs so that they can tell what kinds of human resources will be needed. To identify the most qualified applicants for various positions, decision makers need to know what tasks the individuals must perform as well as the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities. Almost every employee hired by an organization will require training and/or development.