2. Job Description and Job Specification in
Job Analysis
Job Description
A statement containing items
such as
• Job title
• Location
• Job summary
• Duties
• Machines, tools, and
equipment
• Materials and forms used
• Supervision given or received
• Working conditions
• hazards
Job specification
A statement of human qualifications
necessary to do the job. Usually
contains such items as
• Education
• Experience
• Training
• Judgement
• Initiative
• Physical efforts
• Physical skills
• Responsibilities
• Communication skills
• Emotional characteristics
• Unusual sensory demands such as
sight, smell, hearing
Job Analysis
A process of obtaining all pertinent job facts
3. Job Analysis offers Competitive
Advantage to a Firm
• is a foundation for HRP
• foundation for employee hiring
• foundation for t & d
• foundation for performance appraisal
• foundation for wage and relay fixation
• foundation for safety and health
4. Process of Job Analysis
Gather Information
Process Information
Job Description
Job Specification
Strategic Choices
Uses of Job Description and Job
Specification
• Personnel Planning
• Performance Appraisal
• Hiring
• Training and Development
• Job Evaluation and Compensation
• Health and Safety
• Employee Discipline
• Work Scheduling
• Career Planning
5. Process of Job Analysis
• Strategic choices
– employee involvement
– levels of details
– timing and frequency of analysis
– past or future
– sources of data
• Information gathering
• Information processing
• Job description
• Resulting in various outcomes
6. Methods of Collecting Job Data
Observation Questionnaire
Checklists Diary
Interviews
Job Data
Technical
Conference
8. Uses of Jobs Analysis
Job Analysis
Job
Description
Job
Specification
Job Evaluation
Remuneration
Training and Development
Recruitment and Selection
HRP
Performance Appraisal
Personnel Information
Safety and Healthy
10. Nature of Job Design
• Job design is the conscious efforts to
organize tasks, duties and responsibilities
into one unit of work. It involves
– identification of individual tasks
– specification of methods of performing the
tasks
– combination of tasks into specific jobs to be
assigned to individuals
15. Reality Check
• Amazon.com is one company that has
de-jobbing practice. Here a worker is
switching from a job to job three months’
intervals. The .com puts more emphasis
on broader worker specification than on
detailed job description. Do you find any
other organisation (s) practising de-
jobbing?
16. Reality Check
List the expectation of each of the following
jobs:
• A programmer
• Receptionist
• Executive assistance
• Sales Rep
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