PSYC 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Job Analysis, Job Performance, Critical Incident Technique
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Putting psychology to work lecture 4 job analysis. Job analysis: the systematic process of collecting information used to make decisions about jobs. Job analysis identifies the task, duties, and responsibilities of a particular job. Job analysis the process of defining a job in terms of its component"s tasks or duties and the knowledge or skills required to perform them. The process of job analysis: prepare for job analysis identify the sources of data + select the methods of data collection record the job data generate job specifications hr functions. Three major sources of job information: each is a sma (subject matter expert, two are the best sources of job information, job incumbent, supervisor, one is the best qualified to comprehend relationships among jobs, trained job analyst. Interview (of smes: direct observation (of employees, participation, examination of existing data, questionnaire/ inventories.