Lecture 3: Job Analysis

Question 1

Training

Answer 1

Start up a training process when people don’t have enough skills that are necessary

Question 2

Person power planning

Answer 2

Look at the potential promotion routes that people can take

Question 3

Performance appraisals

Answer 3

Conversations about your performance and goals for the upcoming year so you have a good idea about what you can do

Question 4

Job classification, evaluation & design

Answer 4

Structure in jobs, put in certain boxes and job analysis can help with this to see where jobs belong to

Question 5

Compliance with legal guidelines

Answer 5

To make sure you’re not discriminating to avoid legal problems

Question 6

Organizational analysis

Answer 6

Levels of different jobs (macrolevel)

Question 7

Job description sections

Answer 7

• Job title: needs to be clear and indicate what the person is supposed to do
• Brief summary: what is this job supposed to do
• Work activities: List of different work activities that this job would perform
• Tools and equipment used
• Job context: in what type of context will you perform your job
• Work performance: How will your performance be evaluated
• Compensation information: In which category your salary would fall
• Job competencies: Needed to perform the job well1

Question 8

Steps of a job analysis

Answer 8

1) Identify tasks performed
2) Write task statements
3) Rate task statements
4) Determine KSAO’s
5) Select tests to tap KSAO’s

Question 9

Job evaluation

Answer 9

The process of determining the monetary worth of a job