This document summarizes key topics from Chapter 4 of the 11th edition of the textbook "Human Resource Management" by Gary Dessler, which discusses job analysis. The chapter covers defining job analysis and its uses, methods for collecting job analysis information such as interviews, questionnaires, and observation. It also discusses writing job descriptions and specifications, and analyzing jobs in changing workplace environments, including techniques like job enlargement and reengineering business processes. The overall document provides an overview of the concepts, methods, and processes involved in conducting job analysis for human resource management purposes.

1. Human Resource
Management
ELEVENTH EDITION
1
GARY DESSLER
Part 2 | Recruitment and Placement
Chapter 4
Job Analysis
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2. After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Discuss the nature of job analysis, including what it is
and how it’s used.
2. Use at least three methods of collecting job analysis
information, including interviews, questionnaires, and
observation.
3. Write job descriptions, including summaries and job
functions, using the Internet and traditional methods.
4. Write job specifications using the Internet as well as
your judgment.
5. Explain job analysis in a “jobless” world, including
what it means and how it’s done in practice.
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3. Methods of Collecting Job Analysis
Information: The Interview
• Information Sources
• Interview Formats
 Individual employees
 Structured (Checklist)
 Groups of employees
 Unstructured
 Supervisors with
knowledge of the job
• Advantages
 Quick, direct way to find
overlooked information
• Disadvantages
 Distorted information
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4. Methods of Collecting Job Analysis
Information: Questionnaires
• Information Source
 Have employees fill out
questionnaires to describe
their job-related duties and
responsibilities
• Questionnaire Formats
 Structured checklists
 Open-ended questions
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• Advantages
 Quick and efficient way to
gather information from
large numbers of
employees
• Disadvantages
 Expense and time
consumed in preparing
and testing the
questionnaire
4–4

5. Methods of Collecting Job Analysis
Information: Observation
• Information Source
 Observing and noting the
physical activities of
employees as they go
about their jobs
• Advantages
 Provides first-hand
information
 Reduces distortion of
information
• Disadvantages
 Time consuming
 Difficulty in capturing
entire job cycle
 Of little use if job involves
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a high level of mental
activity
4–5

6. Methods of Collecting Job Analysis
Information: Participant Diary/Logs
• Information Source
 Workers keep a
chronological diary/ log of
what they do and the time
spent on each activity
• Advantages
 Produces a more complete
picture of the job
 Employee participation
• Disadvantages
 Distortion of information
 Depends upon employees
to accurately recall their
activities
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7. Quantitative Job Analysis Techniques
Quantitative Job
Analysis
Position Analysis
Questionnaire
Department of
Labor (DOL)
Procedure
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Functional Job
Analysis
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8. Writing Job Descriptions
Job
Identification
Job
Summary
Job
Specifications
Sections of a
Typical Job
Description
Working
Conditions
Standards of
Performance
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Responsibilities
and Duties
Authority of the
Incumbent
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9. Writing Job Specifications
“What traits and
experience are required
to do this job well?”
Specifications for
Trained Versus
Untrained
Personnel
Specifications
Based on
Judgment
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Specifications
Based on
Statistical
Analysis
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10. Job Analysis in a “Jobless” World
Job Design:
Specialization and
Efficiency?
Job
Enlargement
Job
Rotation
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Job
Enrichment
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11. Job Analysis in a “Jobless” World (cont’d)
Dejobbing the
Organization
Flattening the
Organization
Using SelfManaged Work
Teams
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Reengineering
Business
Processes
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12. KEY TERMS
job analysis
job description
job specifications
organization chart
process chart
diary/log
position analysis questionnaire
(PAQ)
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
job analysis procedure
functional job analysis
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Standard Occupational
Classification (SOC)
job enlargement
job rotation
job enrichment
dejobbing
boundaryless organization
reengineering
competencies
competency-based job analysis
performance management
4–12