MGMT 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Job Design, Constitutionalism, Independent Contractor
Job analysis: A systematic investigation of the tasks, duties and responsibilities of a job and the
necessary knowledge, skills and abilities a person needs to performance the job adequately.
Components:
• Job content
• Job requirements
• Job context
Approaches:
• A job orientated or task approach.
• An employee orientated (or behaviour) approach
When to analyse a job:
• When the organisation commences
• When a new job is created
• When a job is changed significantly
Uses of job analysis:
• Job description
o Defines what a job is by identifying its content, requirements and context.
• Job specifications
o Focus on the skills, abilities, knowledge, personal characteristics and formal
qualifications needed.
• Job design
o Identifies what work must be performed, how it will be performed, where it is to be
performed and who will perform it.
For example:
• To design and implement training programs.
• To help create a healthy and safe work environment.
• To ensure legal compliance.
• To help establish whether a person should be classified as an employee or as an independent
contractor.
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Document Summary
Job analysis: a systematic investigation of the tasks, duties and responsibilities of a job and the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities a person needs to performance the job adequately. Approaches: a job orientated or task approach, an employee orientated (or behaviour) approach. When to analyse a job: when the organisation commences, when a new job is created, when a job is changed significantly. Job description: defines what a job is by identifying its content, requirements and context. Job specifications: focus on the skills, abilities, knowledge, personal characteristics and formal qualifications needed. Identifies what work must be performed, how it will be performed, where it is to be performed and who will perform it. For example: to design and implement training programs, to help create a healthy and safe work environment, to ensure legal compliance, to help establish whether a person should be classified as an employee or as an independent contractor.
