Understanding Job Analysis

Описание: Creating and developing interesting jobs that fit effectively into the flow of an organization’s work is called job design. The more narrow focus of job analysis involves using a formal system to gather information about what people actually do in their jobs.

Job analysis is a systematic way of gathering and analyzing information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs. Job analysis is the basis for all human resource practices because the process sets up how employees are hired, trained and developed, evaluated, and compensated.

Different types of job analysis can be used to secure information about jobs. The most traditional and widely used method is task-based job analysis; however, some organizations have emphasized the need for a competency-based approach.

The decision about whether to use a task-based or competency-based approach to job analysis is affected by the nature of jobs; however, task-based analysis is likely to remain more widely used because it is the most defensible legally.