chapter 3 - job analysis

Question 1

KSAs

Answer 1

KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) – a traditional term used in HR, excluding factors such as personality

Question 2

job analysis

Answer 2

Job Analysis: A Definition and Role in HR Selection (cont)

A purposeful, systematic process for collecting information on the important work-related aspects of a job, including:

1. Work activities – what a worker does; how, why, when these activities are conducted
2. Tools and equipment used in performing work activities

Job analysis data help to:
1. Identify employee specifications or WRCs necessary for success on a job
2.Select or develop selection procedures that assess important applicant WRCs to forecast those candidates likely to succeed on the job
3. Develop criteria or standards of job performance that represent employee job success

Question 3

task analysis inventories

Answer 3

A survey of job analysis methods:
Methods that seem most popular in current HR selection practice:
» Job analysis questionnaires (including task analysis inventories)

The Task Analysis Inventory
Questionnaire or survey that includes a listing of job tasks on which respondents make some form of judgment (ratings)
Use of a task rating scale such as frequency of task performance
Usually concerns only one job or a class of similar jobs

The Task Analysis Inventory
Development of task inventories
Time-consuming and often expensive
Access to previous inventories or analyzes important determinants of the cost and success of the method

Application of task analysis in selection
Several statistical techniques useful for rating data
Techniques involve calculating simple descriptive statistics,
means, standard deviations, percentages

Question 4

The Task Analysis Inventory

Answer 4

Advantages of task analysis
- An efficient means of collecting data from large numbers of incumbents in geographically dispersed location
- Lead to quantifying job analysis data – most valuable in analyzing jobs and determining core job requirements

Disadvantages of task analysis
- Time-consuming, somewhat expensive – motivation problems when inventories are long or complex
- Respondents not representative of the desired employee population – work shift, gender, race, age – results may not be generalizable

Question 5

legislation of job analysis

Answer 5

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: federal legislation to specify regulation across industries
It addresses employment practices:
Recruitment
Selection
Compensation
Training
Promotion of employees

EEO Laws and Executive Orders:
- EEO laws are federal laws designed to eliminate discrimination in HR management decisions
- EEO executive orders are statements made by the executive branch of the government intended for the same purpose as the laws, but are applicable only to organizations that do business directly with the government