EMPR 334 Flashcards
What is job analysis
a technique/methodology wherein we try to understand what people do at work; it is foundational to all HR practices
job analysis is foundational to all HR practices:
- job description
- job classification
- workforce
- job evaluation
- recruitment
- occ health and safety
smallest unit of work
element
job
work performed by individuals who do similar tasks
element
smallest unit of work; micro-components of work role (ex. physical movements)
activity
clusters of elements
tasks
groups of activities targeting the achievement of job objectives
duty
collection of similarly-themed tasks (ex. customer service)
position
reflects elements, activities, tasks and duties performed by an employee
job analysis refers to the process by which
we discover the fundamental nature of a particular job
job analysis defined by 3 features
- must be planed, systematic, formally defined
- breaks jobs into smaller units
- ends in formal description of the job (formal product)
work-oriented JA
focuses on the WORK
- what does the worker do; what tasks are performed
- what tools/machinery are needed
- what is the work environment
what is missing from the worker-oriented JA/ what does this approach not focus on
sole focus on work tasks, no worker well being etc comes into the analysis at all, primarily about tasks and nothing else
how might work-oriented JA be useful to HRM
ensure recruitment and selection is centered on the basis of necessary tasks for the job
ex. electricians cannot be colourblind
- job design
- training requirements
- performance management
time and motion studies criticisms
- doesn’t consider worker/personal constraints
- focused on average performance, doesn’t consider specific cases
- imbalance between efficiency and safety quality as being efficient doesn’t always mean the job was well done and also that speed and performance don’t always go together
time and mother studies advantages
- maximizing efficiency and reducing waste
- help predict normative time for tasks (ex. taking an hour to complete 10 min task is an issue)
- generalization- help understand role
work-oriented JA: functional job analysis (FJA)
produces standardized information about a job for classification purposes
systematically compare jobs with dissimilar tasks by focusing on functional categories of the work (on what workers do)
all jobs reflect these 3 things in FJA even though they may present differently
worker functions relate to
1. data
2. people
3. things
in FJA worker functions relate to
data, people, things
they’ll present differently in different positions