Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Analysis, Performance Appraisal, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: John Meyer

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Work/ job analysis: method for describing jobs and/or the human attributes necessary to perform them. I can describe the job itself or describe what to do to do well: never conducted without a specific, expressed purpose. You always have a reason for doing it. The way you design it etc all depends on why you are interested in doing it. Performance appraisal, many reasons why conduct one. Requirements: elements of a work analysis (brannick, levin, & morgason, 2006) At the end of analysis you always have a project like a prez. The procedures chosen depend on why the work analysis is being conducted. Some cases 1 appraoch would be enough, others need more approach: work focus/ task oriented approach: focus on the tasks that are done on the job. The actual job , not the workers lifting boxes, moving things. To rank who needs to be paid most, hand out office, salary,