BU354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Design, Paq, Job Performance
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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. Job - group of related activities and duties. Position - collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by an individual: there are so many positions so it is hard for hr to know the details of every one. Step 1: familiarization with the organization and its jobs: be aware of org. structure, strategies, objectives, inputs and desired outcomes. Intent is to collect relevant and accurate info about jobs and factors determining job success. Step 2: determine uses of job analysis: uses as shown in first figure, details collected are influences by the objectives of the study. Step 3: identify jobs to be analyzed: target jobs that are critical to organizational success, difficult to learn or perform, jobs where new employees are continuously hired or jobs that exclude members of a protected class.
