Chapter 5
Analysing Work
and
Designing Jobs
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Learning Objectives
• Understand the nature of job analysis and
describe the process of conducting job
analysis
• Understand job design and describe how
it is done
• Identify techniques of job design with
explanation of each
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Job Description and Job Specification in
Job Analysis
Job Analysis
A process of obtaining all pertinent job facts
Job Description Job specification
A statement containing items A statement of human qualifications
such as necessary to do the job. Usually
• Job title contains such items as
• Location • Education
• Job summary • Experience
• Duties • Training
• Machines, tools, and • Judgement
equipment • Initiative
• Materials and forms used • Physical efforts
• Supervision given or received • Physical skills
• Working conditions • Responsibilities
• hazards • Communication skills
• Emotional characteristics
• Unusual sensory demands such as
sight, smell, hearing
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Job Analysis offers Competitive
Advantage to a Firm
• is a foundation for HRP
• foundation for employee hiring
• foundation for t & d
• foundation for performance appraisal
• foundation for wage and relay fixation
• foundation for safety and health
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Process of Job Analysis
Strategic Choices
Gather Information
Uses of Job Description and Job
Process Information Specification
• Personnel Planning
• Performance Appraisal
• Hiring
Job Description • Training and Development
• Job Evaluation and Compensation
• Health and Safety
• Employee Discipline
• Work Scheduling
Job Specification
• Career Planning
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Process of Job Analysis
• Strategic choices
– employee involvement
– levels of details
– timing and frequency of analysis
– past or future
– sources of data
• Information gathering
• Information processing
• Job description
• Resulting in various outcomes
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Methods of Collecting Job Data
Interviews
Observation Questionnaire
Job Data
Checklists Diary
Technical
Conference
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Job Enlargement
Employee 1 Employee 2 Employee 3
Tasks Tasks Tasks
Drill holes Drill holes Drill holes
Assemble Assemble Assemble
Parts Parts Parts
Test Test Test
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Uses of Jobs Analysis
HRP
Recruitment and Selection
Training and Development
Job
Description
Job Evaluation
Job Analysis
Remuneration
Job
Specification
Performance Appraisal
Personnel Information
Safety and Healthy
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Job Rotation
Tasks Tasks
Tasks
Assemble Test
Drill holes
Parts Component
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
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Nature of Job Design
• Job design is the conscious efforts to
organize tasks, duties and responsibilities
into one unit of work. It involves
– identification of individual tasks
– specification of methods of performing the
tasks
– combination of tasks into specific jobs to be
assigned to individuals
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Job Design Factors
Feedback
Organisational
Factors
Environmental Productive and
Job Design
Factors Satisfying Job
Behavioural Factors
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Comparison of Five Design Approaches
High
Socio-technical Systems
Job Enrichment
Job Enlargement
Medium
Impact
Job Engineering
Job Rotation
Low
Low Medium High
Complexity
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Contemporary Issues
• Telecommuting
• Alternative work patterns
• Technostress
• Task revision
• Skill Development
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Reality Check
• Why do people like jobs but hate work?
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Reality Check
• Amazon.com is one company that has
de-jobbing practice. Here a worker is
switching from a job to job three months’
intervals. The .com puts more emphasis
on broader worker specification than on
detailed job description. Do you find any
other organisation (s) practising de-
jobbing?
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Reality Check
List the expectation of each of the following
jobs:
• A programmer
• Receptionist
• Executive assistance
• Sales Rep
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