IRE348H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Decision-Making, Structured Interview, Uptodate

• School: UTSG
• Department: Employment Relations, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
• Course: IRE348H1
• Professor: Ted Mock

Document Summary

Job analysis is the process (often formalized) of identifying the critical skills, knowledge, abilities, attitudes, experience and educational requirement to perform a particular job. The process usually also identifies the tasks, duties and responsibilities of the job. Job analysis data is used when writing the job description. Job analysis data is used in establishing selection criteria for a job and is used in the establishment of a bfor. A job is a group of tasks. The same job may be held by many people in an organization. A position is held by one person. In a bay store, there may be 200 sales associates. This represents 1 job (sales associate) positions (individual incumbents). People who are most knowledgeable about a job. Until very recently, job analysis was work oriented. This type of job analysis focuses on tasks, duties, responsibilities of the job and ksao"s required to perform the job. They are highly detailed descriptions of specific jobs and their requirements.