Workforce, Jobs, and Job Analysis Flashcards
Labor Force Participation Rate
The percentage of the population working or seeking work.
Work
Effort directed toward accomplishing results.
Job
Grouping of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that constitutes the total work assignment for an employee.
Workflow Analysis
Study of the way work (inputs, activities, and outputs) moves through an organization.
Job design
Organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other elements into a productive unit of work.
Job resdesign
Taking an existing job and changing it to improve it.
Contingent worker
Someone who is not an employee, but a temporary or part-time worker for a specific period of time and type of work.
Person-job fit
Matching characteristics of people with characteristics of jobs.
Job enlargement
Broadening the scope of a job by expanding the number of different tasks to be performed.
Job enrichment
Increasing the depth of a job by adding responsibility for planning, organizing, controlling, or evaluating the job.
Job rotation
Process of shifting a person from job to job.
Skill variety
Extent to which the work requires several activities for successful completion.
Task identity
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.
Task significance
Impact the job has on other people.
Autonomy
Extent of individual freedom and discretion in the work and its scheduling.
Feedback
The amount of information employees receive about how well or how poorly they have performed.
Special-purpose team
Organizational team formed to address specific problems, improve work processes, and enhance the overall quality of products and services.
Self-directed team
Organizational team composed of individuals who are assigned a cluster of tasks, duties, and responsibilities to be accomplished.
Virtual team
Organizational team includes individuals who are separated geographically but who are linked by communications technology.
Compressed workweek
A workweek in which a full week’s work is accomplished in fewer than five 8-hour days.
Job sharing
Scheduling arrangement in which two employees perform the work of one full-time job.
Work-life balance
Employer-sponsored programs designed to help employees balance work and personal life.
Job analysis
Systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs.
Task
Distinct, identifiable work activity composed of motions.
Duty
Work segment composed of several tasks that are performed by an individual.
Responsibilities
Obligations to perform certain tasks and duties.
Competencies
Individual capabilities that can be linked to enhanced performance by individuals or teams.
Marginal job functions
Duties that are part of a job but are incidental or ancillary to the purpose and nature of the job.
Job description
Identification of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job.
Jon specifications
The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) and individual needs to perform a job satisfactorily.
Performance standards
Indicators of what the job accomplishes and how performance is measured in key areas of the job description.
Elements of a workforce profile
Age, skill gaps, readiness for work, generational differences, time worked (PT, FT, Temp),and moonlighters.
Task-based job analysis
Seeks to identify all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities that are part of a job.
Competency-based job analysis
Considers how knowledge and skills are used.
Components of a job description
Identification, general summary, essential job functions and duties, job specifications, and disclaimers & approvals.
