Unit 2.2-2.6 Flashcards
Job analysis help us to:
● Define the structure of the organization
● Define the structure of Jobs
● Understand how authority is distributed
● Knowing the hierarchical relationships
● Establish performance criteria
● Detecting employee redundancy
● Guide Reference
Job analysis “Building block of HRM” —>
● HR planning
● recruitment and selection
● performance and evaluation
● training
● compensation
● management and career planning
Two outcomes- job analysis
- Focus on the job- the work, how it is done ++
- Focus on the person- skills, abilities ++
Content in a job description
● Position Title
● Department/Unit
● date
● job objective
● supervision exercised and receiving
● List of Tasks, duties and responsibilities
● Context / resources
Job Specification
: List of knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics that a person must have to successfully perform a particular job.
Recruitment Purposes :
● Provide a sufficient number of qualified people for positions to be filled.
● Increase the success rate in the selection process.
● Reduce the likelihood that the selected candidates leave the organization soon after joining.
● Increase individual and organizational efficiency.
Internal recruitment- advantages
1.The level of knowledge that the candidate already has of the organization and the organization of the candidate.
2.Employees feel safer and associate long-term interests with those of the organization.
3.Increases motivation.
4.Leverages investments in training.
5.Develop a degree of internal competition.
6.Lower costs and time.
Internal recruitment- disadvantages
1.Difficult to find in the organization, the person with the required characteristics
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2.Infighting. Conflict and lack of cooperation between employees.
3.People with no “fresh” ideas.
External recruitment- advantages
- Attracting people with new ideas, different perspectives and new ways of addressing the internal problems of the organization.
- Leverage investments of training activities of other companies. It is often more convenient to hire a professional trained or qualified, especially when the organization has an immediate need for specific skills
External recruitment- disadvantages
- It takes more time to fill out the vacancy.
- Costs are higher.
- It offers less security.
- It can cause frustration among employees.
- It may break the internal equity of the wage system.
The selection process has to be (criteria) :
- Reliable = consistency
- valid = correctness
- cost efficient
- legal
Steps in the Selection Process :
- Screening applications and resumes
- Testing and reviewing work samples
- Interviewing candidates
- Checking references and background
- Making a solution
Big 5 personality traits :
- Open ( inventive, curios vs consistent, cautious)
- Extraverted (outgoing,energetic vs solitary, reserved)
- Conscientious ( efficient, organized vs easy-going, careless)
- Stable (sensitive, nervous vs secure, confident)
- Agreeable (friendly, compassionate vs analytical, detached)
Cognitive ability tests assess abilities involved in thinking:
● Reasoning
● Perception
● Memory
● verbal
● mathematical ability
● problem solving
Interviewing
- Non Directive Interviews
- Structured interviews (Situational or Behavioral)
Behavioral Interviews (BEST OPTION)
● The best predictor of a candidate’s future performance is his or her past performance.
● Questions are built around specific incidents that have happened rather than hypothetical situations.
● Answers should provide concrete evidence as to how a candidate has dealt with issues in the past.
Interviews : The STAR method
structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing a specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing.
● Situation: Describe the situation that you were in or the task that you needed to accomplish.
● Task: What goal were you working towards?
● Action: Describe the actions you took to address the situation with an appropriate amount of detail and keep the focus on YOU.
● Result: Describe the outcome of your actions and don’t be shy about taking credit for your behavior.
How to prepare for a Behavioral Interview
- Recall recent situations that show favorable behaviors or actions, especially involving course work, work experience, leadership, teamwork, initiative, planning, and customer service.
- Prepare short descriptions of each situation; be ready to give details if asked.
- Be sure the outcome or result reflects positively on you (even if the result itself was not favorable).
- Be honest. Don’t embellish or omit any part of the story.
- Be specific. Don’t generalize about several events; give a detailed accounting of one event.
- Vary your examples; don’t take them all from just one area of your life.
Staff Training
● Training Plan
● Methods and techniques
● Evaluation: audits.
● Continuous training.
The in-company training can be oriented towards:
The demand
the different departments or business units of the company demand
training based on the detection of needs
The offer
is the professional who chooses to go to training
Training- objectives
- Provide participants with knowledge, skills, abilities, etc.
- Motivate workers to be immersed in training processes for their training.
- Consolidate promotion processes.
- Homogenize groups based on the unification of criteria of the attendees.
- Improve productivity
- Solve problems and inefficiencies that are generated in any productive process
Training- 1st phase
Need analysis
- proactive
- reactive
Training- 2nd phase
design
Techniques for data collection:
● Questionnaires Interviews
● Analysis and DPT
● Individual requests
● The observation
● Studies of some indicators
● Group meetings
● Results of the evaluation and development plans