Workforce, Jobs, and Job Analysis

Question 1

Labor Force Participation Rate

Answer 1

The percentage of the population working or seeking work.

Question 2

Work

Answer 2

Effort directed toward accomplishing results.

Question 3

Job

Answer 3

Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee.

Question 4

Workflow Analysis

Answer 4

Study of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves through an organization.

Question 5

Job design

Answer 5

Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.

Question 6

Job resdesign

Answer 6

Taking an existing job and changing it to improve it.

Question 7

Contingent worker

Answer 7

Someone who is not an employee, but a temporary or part-time worker for a specific period of time and type of work.

Question 8

Person-job fit

Answer 8

Matching characteristics of people with characteristics of jobs.

Question 9

Job enlargement

Answer 9

Broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks to be performed.

Question 10

Job enrichment

Answer 10

Increasing the depth of a job by adding responsibility for planning, organizing, controlling, or evaluating the job.

Question 11

Job rotation

Answer 11

Process of shifting a person from job to job.

Question 12

Skill variety

Answer 12

Extent to which the work requires several activities for successful completion.

Question 13

Task identity

Answer 13

Extent to which the job includes a “whole” identifiable unit of work that is carried out from start to finish and that results in a visible outcome.

Question 14

Task significance

Answer 14

Impact the job has on other people.

Question 15

Autonomy

Answer 15

Extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling.

Question 16

Feedback

Answer 16

The amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed.

Question 17

Special-purpose team

Answer 17

Organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services.

Question 18

Self-directed team

Answer 18

Organizational team composed of individuals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished.

Question 19

Virtual team

Answer 19

Organizational team includes individuals who are separated geographically but who are linked by communications technology.

Question 20

Compressed workweek

Answer 20

A workweek in which a full week’s work is accomplished in fewer than five 8-hour days.

Question 21

Job sharing

Answer 21

Scheduling arrangement in which two employees perform the work of one full-time job.

Question 22

Work-life balance

Answer 22

Employer-sponsored programs designed to help employees balance work and personal life.

Question 23

Job analysis

Answer 23

Systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs.

Question 24

Task

Answer 24

Distinct, identifiable work activity composed of motions.

Question 25

Duty

Answer 25

Work segment composed of several tasks that are performed by an individual.

Question 26

Responsibilities

Answer 26

Obligations to perform certain tasks and duties.

Question 27

Competencies

Answer 27

Individual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by individuals or teams.

Question 28

Marginal job functions

Answer 28

Duties that are part of a job but are incidental or ancillary to the purpose and nature of the job.

Question 29

Job description

Answer 29

Identification of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job.

Question 30

Jon specifications

Answer 30

The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) and individual needs to perform a job satisfactorily.

Question 31

Performance standards

Answer 31

Indicators of what the job accomplishes and how performance is measured in key areas of the job description.

Question 32

Elements of a workforce profile

Answer 32

Age, skill gaps, readiness for work, generational differences, time worked (PT, FT, Temp),and moonlighters.

Question 33

Task-based job analysis

Answer 33

Seeks to identify all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are part of a job.

Question 34

Competency-based job analysis

Answer 34

Considers how knowledge and skills are used.

Question 35

Components of a job description

Answer 35

Identification, general summary, essential job functions and duties, job specifications, and disclaimers & approvals.