MGHB12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Enrichment, Job Analysis, Job Design
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Job: a group of related activities and duties. Position: the different duties and responsibilities performed by only one employee. Job family: a group of individual jobs with similar characteristics. Job specification: a statement of the needed knowledge, skills and abilities of the person who is to perform the job. Job description: a statement of the tasks, duties and responsibilities of a job to be performed. Job analysis: the process of obtaining information about jobs by determining the duties, tasks or activities of jobs. Position analysis questionnaire (paq): a questionnaire covering 194 different tasks that, by means of a five- point scale, seeks to determine the degree to which different tasks are involved in performing a particular job. Critical incident method: a job analysis method by which important job tasks are identified for job success. Task inventory analysis: an organization-specific list of tasks and their descriptions used as a basis to identify components of jobs.
