Techniques of job analysis
- 3. What is Job Analysis?
• Definition : Job analysis is the process used to
collect information about the
duties, responsibilities, necessary
skills, outcomes, and work environment of a
particular job so as to distinguish it from other
jobs. Job analysis was conceptualized by two
of the founders of industrial/organizational
psychology, Frederick Taylor and Lillian Moller
Gilbreth in the early 20th century.
- 5. Need?
• It provides the following information:
– Job Identification
– Characteristics of the job
– What a typical worker does and uses
– How is the Job performed
– Required Personnel Attributes
– Job Relationships
- 6. • Job Description
– Statement that
explains the
duties, working
conditions of a
job, etc.
• Job Specification
• Statement of
what a job
demands of an
employee.
• Example: KSA-
Knowledge, Skills
, Abilities and
other
characteristics
required to
perform a job.
- 7. Job Description
• Job Description: Organised
statement of job contents, with
duties and responsibiliities of that
job.
– It includes the following:
• Job title or name
• Job Location
• Job Summary
• Duties
• Tools
• Relationship
• Environment
- 8. Job Specification
• It states the minimum human
qualities/skills needed by a
prospective employee to perform
the job properly. Example:
– Educational Qualifications
– Training and Experience
– Physique and Health
– Personality
– Creativity, etc
- 9. Description vs Specification
Description
• It is a written statement of
contents of a job.
• Its purpose is to
identify, define and describe
a job.
• Includes:
Titles, Duties, Working
Conditions, Supervisions, R
elationships of that job.
• It is prepared before Job
Specification.
Specification
• It is a written statement of
qualities required for a job.
• Its purpose is to facilitate
recruitment, training of the
people for the job.
• Includes:
Education, Training, Experie
nce, Aptitude, etc required
for the job.
• It is prepared after Job
Description.
- 10. Process of Job Analysis
• Organisational Analysis: Overview of various jobs, linkages.
• Obtaining Info. About Jobs: List of titles, Type, How, Skills, etc.
• Selecting Representative Jobs(Sample) for Analysis
• Responsibility for collecting Info: External or Internal Help.
• Collection of Data: 1st hand or 2nd hand( Supervisors)
• Developing Job Descriptions
• Developing Job Specifications
- 13. Introduction
• Integral part of HRM
• Helps in redesigning jobs
• Aid in formation of Organisation Structure
• Planning staffing process
• Organising training programs
• It provides base to everything of HRM
• Lets see all Purposes/benefits of Job Analysis
- 14. 1. Human resource Planning
• Determines demand of job in terms of
responsibility.
• Helps in determining the number of Jobs and
type of Qualification
• Helps us to know Average Work of Employees.
• Division of work into different jobs.
- 15. 2. Recruitment
• Provides clear statement of jobs
• Tells about skill and Knowledge
• Helps us to match the job requirements with
workers ability and interests
• Job Duties to be included in advertisement of
vacant position
• Appropriate salary
- 17. 3. Job Evaluation
• Relative worth of jobs
• Determining base compensation
• Ensures internal pay equity of one job to
another
• Judges the requirement of jobs and its
importance in organisation
- 18. 4. Training & Development
• Training content
• Training is to help employees gain skills
required to do a particular job
• Methods of Training
• Tests to measure effectiveness of training
- 19. 5. Performance Appraisal
• Set Goals and objectives
• Set Performance standards
• Length of probationary periods
• Duties to be evaluated
• Evaluation criteria
- 21. 6.Job Design
• Reduce personnel costs, streamline work
processes,
• Increase productivity and employee
empowerment,
• Enhance job satisfaction and provide greater
scheduling flexibility for the employee.
• Simplify job with too many disparate activities
• Identifies what must be performed, how it will be
performed, where it is to be performed and who
will perform it.
- 22. 7. Compensation
• Skill levels
• Compensation job factors
• Work environment (e.g., hazards; attention;
physical effort)
• Responsibilities (e.g., fiscal; supervisory)
• Required level of education (indirectly related
to salary level
- 23. 8. Organisational Design
• Creating interrelationship among jobs
• Responsibility with authority
• Accountability
• Minimising duplications
• Formation of Hierarchical positions
- 24. 9. Safety
• Uncover or Identify hazardous condition
• Corrective measures to prevent it
• Safeguard the Human Resource of
Organisation