W3 - Job Analysis

Job analysis => Determining duties and skill requirements of a job

Job description => Job’s duties, responsibilities, reporting relationships, working conditions, and supervisory responsibilities - one product of a job analysis.

Job specifications => Human requirements education, skills, personality, and so on - another product of a job analysis.

Matrix

Example

• Benchmarking

• Interviews => Structured, unstructured, Quick and direct but can be distorted

• Questionnaires => Structured, quick and efficient, but time consuming to prepare

• Obeservations => First hand info, less distorted, time consuming and hard to capture whole job cycle

1. Job enlargement => assigns the workers additional same level activities, thus increasing the number of activities they perform

2. Job enrichment => redesigns the jobs in a way that increases the opportunities for the worker to experience feelings of responsibility, achievement, growth, and recognition

3. Job rotation => Moving trainee from department to department to increase skill

4. Dejobbing => broadens the responsibilities of the company’s jobs and encourages the employee initiative (no formal job description)