Job Analysis

• There are different methods or techniques that can be used to conduct job analysis, including observation, interviews, questionnaires/surveys, focus groups, and secondary sources.
• The purpose of job analysis is to gather accurate and comprehensive data on job content, which can be used as input into various HR processes such as recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and career development.
• Job analysis is the process of identifying, describing, analyzing, and documenting job duties, responsibilities, tasks, requirements, and other relevant information about jobs.
• Effective talent management focuses on developing employee competencies that align with strategic goals


  True
• In an effective talent management system, an employee's performance appraisal would initiate training and development opportunities

  True
• Conducting the job analysis is the sole responsibility of the HR specialist

  False
• Informal interviews provide quantitative job analysis information, which is why they are frequently used by managers who need to determine the relative worth of a job for pay purposes

  True
• HR specialist collect information through a job analysis
• What are the types of information that are not typically collected by an HR specialist through a job analysis

  Job analysis, employee benefit options
• Jennifer, a manager at an engineering firm, has been assigned the task of conducting a job analysis. What would be Jennifer's first step in the process

  Deciding how the gathered information will be used
• What is not addressed in the job specification

  • Desired personality traits
  • Required education levels
  • necessary experience
  • working conditions

  Working conditions
• This indicates the division of work within a firm and the lines of authority and communication

  Organizational chart
• Which is an example of a business process reengineering?

  • Using computerized systems to combine separate tasks
  • Creating a visual chart for workflow procedures
  • Assigning additional activities to new employees
  • Developing employee skills and behaviors

  Using computerized systems to combine separate tasks
• While performing the fifth step of a job analysis, it is essential to confirm the validity of collected data with the

  worker
• What term refers to systematically moving workers from one job to another

  job rotation
• Jerome, a manager at an electronics company, needs to gather job analysis information from a large number of employees who perform similar work. What's the most appropriate step he should do?

  • Interviewing a supervisor
  • Interviewing HR managers
  • Holding a group interview with a supervisor
  • Conducting a telephone survey for all the employees

  Holding a group interview with a supervisor
• Workers alter their normal activities because they are being watched. This is a phenomenon called 


  reactivity
• Joaquin records every activity in which he participates at work along with the time it takes him to complete each activity. Which of the following approaches to job analysis data collection is most likely being used at Joaquin's workplace?

  • Interviews
  • Direct Observations
  • Diaries
  • Logging

  Diaries