MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Analysis, Job Performance, Paq

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Margaret Yap

Document Summary

Knowledge about jobs and their requirements must be collected through job analysis. Job analysis: is a systematic study of a job to discover its specifications, descriptions and requirements. Position: collection of responsibilities and tasks performed by an individual employee. Human resource information system (hris) permits easy retrieval of relevant job details. Provides variety of information about the job, job holders, and the past performance standards. Job analysis has three phases: 1) preparation for job analysis, 2) collection of job analysis information, 3) use of job analysis information. Phase 2: collection of job analysis information: step 1: determine the sources of data, step 2: data collection instrument design, step 3: choice of method for data collection. Two most popular instrument designs are : position analysis questionnaire and functional job analysis. Fja: classifies tasks using three functional scales related to data, people and things.