Chapter 4 Jobs and job analysis

-          In this chapter the facilitator perform a little act about to their topic.

JOB DETERMINANTS

-          We might ask our selves 2 questions

1.       How do jobs come into being?

2.       What factors cause jobs to be what they are (in terms of content or other characteristics?)

·         Two types of factors that determine the nature of individual jobs

First, fixed as far as the incumbent is concerned, these being “givens”

Second, both experience and experimental evidence indicate that, in some positions , the incumbent can have some influence, moderate or major, on the activities that make up the position and on how the activities are performed.

Determinants-work activities of jobs

USES OF JOB INFORMATION

-          Good decisions

-          Can define more generally as the study of human work.

JOB ANALYSIS (4 different angles)

-          The types

-          The form

-          The method of analysis

-          The agent

TYPES OF JOB ANALYSIS INFORMSTION

-          More on job oriented work activities

FORM OF JOB ANALYSIS INFORMATION

·         Qualitative information – typically descriptive

·         Quantitative information – typically characterized

METHODS OF COLLECTING JOB INFORMATION

-          Observe, interview, technical conferences, review some records and works

Task Inventories (job inventories) – typically consist of lists of the tasks pertinent to some occupational area.

Job dimensions – combinations or groups, or clusters bundles of interrelated job elements.