Psychology 2660A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Accounting, Job Performance, Performance Appraisal
16 Dec 2017
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Job analysis is a method for describing jobs and/or the human attributes necessary to perform them. There are three elements that comprise a formal job analysis: the procedure must be systematic. This means the analyst specifies a procedure in advance and follows it: a job is broken into smaller units. We describe components of jobs rather than the overall job: the analysis results in some written product, either electronic or on paper. The job-oriented job analysis provides information about the nature of tasks done on the job. The task descriptions provide a picture of what people do on a job, whereas the characteristics of tasks can be used to compare the nature of tasks across different kinds of jobs. Tasks can be divided into a hierarchy in which higher-level descriptions are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces of the job. Position: a position is a collection of duties that can be performed by a single individual.
