FREE online courses on Job Analysis and Evaluation - Job Analysis Information

 

The job analysis provides the following information:

(a)             Job identification: Its title, including its code number.

(b)             Important characteristics of a job: Its location, physical setting, supervision, union jurisdiction, hazards and discomforts.

(c)             What the typical worker does?: This includes collection of information on specific operations and tasks to be performed by the typical worker including their relative timing and importance, their simplicity, routine or complexity, the responsibility for others, etc.

(d)             Job duties: A detailed list of duties along with the probable frequency of occurrence of each duty.

(e)             What materials and equipments the worker uses?: Metals, plastics, grains, yarn or lathes, milling machines, testers, punch presses and micrometers.

(f)               How a job is done?: The focus here is on the nature of operations like lifting, handling, cleaning, washing, feeding, removing, drilling, driving, setting up and the like.

(g)             Required personal attributes: These include experience, training undertaken, apprenticeship, physical strength, coordination or dexterity, physical demands, mental capabilities, aptitudes, social skills, etc.

(h)             Job relationship: This includes opportunities for advancement, patterns of promotions, essential cooperation, etc.

 

Job analysis also provides the information relating to mental skills, working conditions, hazards, education, vocational preparation, etc.

 

JOB ANALYSIS INFORMATION FORMAT

 

Your Job Title__________________ Code____________   Date_________________

Class Title_____________________ Department____________________________

Your Name____________________ Facility________________________________

Superior's Title_________________ Prepared by____________________________

Superior's Name_______________ Hours Worked________AM______to AM_____

________PM______to PM_____

 

What is the general purpose of your job?

What was your last job? If it was in another organization, please name it.

What job would you normally expect to be promoted?

If you regularly supervise others, list them by name and job title.

If you supervise others, please check those activities that are part of your supervisory duties:

          ¨ Hiring                ¨ Coaching                     ¨ Promoting

          ¨ Orienting            ¨ Counseling                   ¨ Compensating

          ¨ Training             ¨ Budgeting                    ¨ Disciplining

          ¨ Scheduling         ¨ Directing                      ¨ Terminating

          ¨ Developing         ¨ Measuring Performances ¨ Other____________

 

How would you describe the successful completion and results of your work?

Job Duties – Please briefly describe WHAT you do and, if possible, How you do it. Indicate those duties you consider to be most important and/or most difficult:

(b)              Daily Duties

(c)              Periodic Duties (Please indicate whether weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.)

(d)              Duties Performed at Irregular Intervals

 

Education – Please check the blank that indicates the educational requirements for the job, not your own educational background.

¨ No formal education required              ¨ College degree

¨ Less than high school diploma             ¨ Education beyond undergraduates

¨ High school diploma or equivalent degree and/or professional license.

¨ College certificate or equivalent

List advanced degrees or specified professional license or certificate required.

Please indicate the education you had when you were placed on this job.

 

Source: Richard I Henderson, Compensation Management (Reston, Va.: Reston Publishing. 1976), pp. 98-99.