BUS 381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Analysis, Job Sharing, Hunnan District

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 381
• Professor: Natalie Zhao

Document Summary

[job] a group of related activities and duties. [position] the collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person. Job design: process of systematically organizing work into tasks required for a specific job, purpose: enhance the performance of employees and organization by modifying and enriching jobs, make jobs more efficient. Job analysis: a process by which information about jobs is systematically gathered and organized, procedure for determining: Human attributes (in term of knowledge and skills and abilities) required. Job analysis proves the foundation for all other hr activities. Job evaluation: based on the required skills, physical and mental demands, responsibilities and working condition: performance management, performance standard are determined through job analysis. Identify unnecessary requirement, area of conflicts or health concern. Steps in job analysis: review relevant organizational/background information. Includes reviewing current job description of the job: select representative positions and jobs to be analyzed. Ideally, you want to do job analysis on everything but time is scarce.