HRM 2600 Chapter 4: Lecture 4 - Chapter 4 Job Analysis
16 Oct 2011
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Position the activities performed by only one employee. Job family a group of individual jobs with similar characteristics. Job description statement of task, duties and responsibilities of a job to be performed. Once i"ve done a job analysis, i can write a job description. Compensation management what rates to give. All these can be done with a job description each job. Job analysis process of capturing information about various aspects of a job (tasks, duties, responsibilities) Purpose of a job analysis improve organization performance and productivity. Too vague (-: observation changes behaviour. Not all jobs: logs or diaries detail, but could be too much detail. Capture all important job information job cycles. Approaches to job analysis know for midterm: functional job analysis, position analysis questionnaire most popular. 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.
