HROB 2290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Enrichment, Job Analysis, Job Rotation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2290
• Professor: Jinuk Oh

Document Summary

Competencies: demonstrable characteristics of a person that enable performance of the job. Competency-based job analysis: describing a job in terms of the measurable, observable behavioural competences an employee must exhibit to do a job well. Diary/log: daily listings made by employees of every activity in which they engage, along with the time each activity takes. Ergonomics: an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to integrate and accommodate the physical needs of workers into the design of jobs. It aims to adapt the entire job system the work, environment, machines, equipment, and processes to match human characteristics. Functional job analysis (fja: a quantitative method for classifying jobs based on types and amounts of responsibility for data, people, and things. Performance standards and training requirements are also identified. Industrial engineering: a field of study concerned with analyzing work methods,; making work cycles more efficient by modifying, combining, rearranging, or eliminating tasks; and establishing time standards.