Chapter 4: JOB ANALYSIS :

          A job analysis is a step-by-step specification of an employment position's requirements, functions, and procedures. Just as a seed cannot blossom into a flower unless the ground is properly prepared, many human resource management (HRM) practices cannot blossom into competitive advantage unless grounded on an adequate job analysis.

Successful HRM practices can lead to outcomes that create competitive advantage. Job analyses, properly performed, enhance the success of these HRM practices by laying the foundation. Job analysis information can be applied to a variety of HRM practices. We now take a brief look at some of them.

                Form of Job Analysis Information

·         Qualitative it is typically descriptive

·         Quantitative it is typically characterized

Methods of Collecting Job Information

·         Observe

·         Interview

·         Review some records and works

Task Inventories typically consist of the  lists of the tasks patient to some occupational area.

Job Dimensions is the combinations or groups, or cluster bundles of interrelated job elements.