HROB 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Job Analysis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2100
• Professor: Tom Medcof

Document Summary

When you look at all the specific behaviors people engage in and why they do it: all the activities involved in a job, each activity is rated according to importance, frequency, establish legally defensible selection system. Valid: measures what it claims to measure. Steps: information is reviewed, jobs are selected to be analyzed, data collected on job activities, said data is verified and modified, job descriptions are developed, info is communication and regularly updated. Resource valuable- rare (resources & people), inimitable (history), Numerous small decisions, socially complex resources (culture) if you recruit properly you have the advantage. Internal (getting people inside your organization: low costs, you know them, motivations, fit with culture, rivalries, conflict, politics, different perspectives, lower morale for people who aren"t selected. External (getting people who are outside of your organization) fresh perspective: skills not available, unknowns (misfits, adaptation, costs) lower satisfaction.