Management and Organizational Studies 3342A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Analysis, Offshoring

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3342A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Robertson

Document Summary

Job analysis provides underlying info for preparing job descriptions and evaluating jobs. Content of job is identified with job anaysis and is used to describe and value work. Describes the differences and similarities amongst jobs when pay is based on work performed. Purpose stays the same for job based and person based. Why perform job analysis: establishes similarities and differences in job content, helps establish an internally fair and aligned job structure. Job family: grouping of related jobs with similar content. Job: group of tasks performed by one person that make up the total work assignment of that person (ex. Task: smallest unit of analysis, specific statement of what a person does. ^ job analysis collects info abt specific tasks. Identify job data: basic stuff-> titles, departments, number of ppl holding job job content data: tasks or units of work + purpose of each task employee data: kinds of behaviours that will result in the outcomes.