COMM 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Occupational Information Network, Job Analysis, Cegep
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Job analysis systematic study of a job to discover its specifications, skill requirements, and so on, for wage-setting, recruitment, training or job-specification purposes. Job: group of related activities and duties, may be help by one or several employees. Position: collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by an individual. Step 1: familiarization with the organization and its jobs. Step 2: determine uses of job analysis information. Step 3: identify jobs to be analyzed. Step 4: determine sources of job data. Step 5: data collection instrument design: status and identification. Status refers to whether the job is exempt from overtime laws. Step 6: choice of method for data collection. Approach to collecting job-and performance-related information by a face-to-face meeting with jobholder, typically using a standardized questionnaire. The interviewee should be briefed about the objectives of the interview and offered all relevant information to reduce defensiveness: a structured checklist of questions should be used.
