Job Analysis and Design

Question 1

a systematic review of the tasks, duties and responsibilities and the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities a person needs to perform the job adequately.

Answer 1

Job Analysis

Question 2

Components of job description

Answer 2

job content, job requirments and job context

Question 3

when do job analysis need to be done

Answer 3

• when the organisation commences
• when a new job is created
• when a job changed significantly

Question 4

most common methods for job analysis

Answer 4

observation, interviews, job analysis questionnaires, diaries/logs, critical incident reports, e-hrm job data

Question 5

– Defines what a job is by identifying its content,
requirements and context.

Answer 5

job description

Question 6

Focus on the skills, abilities, knowledge, personal
characteristics and formal qualifications needed

Answer 6

job specifications

Question 7

Identifies what work must be performed, how it will be
performed, where it is to be performed and who will
perform it.

Answer 7

job design

Question 8

motives, traits, self-concept, knowledge, skills

Answer 8

competency characteristics

Question 9

methods of job design

Answer 9

• job specialisation or simplification
• job enlargement
• job rotation
• job enrichment
  
  • socio-technical enrichment
  • autonomous work teams

Question 10

five core job dimensions (hackman and Oldham)

Answer 10

1. skills variety
2. task identity
3. task significance
4. autonomy
5. feedback

Question 11

Three critical psychological states (hackman and oldham)

Answer 11

• experienced meaningfulness of work
• experienced responsibility for outcomes of work
• knowledge of actual results of work

Question 12

work design characteristics

Answer 12

motivational, social and work context