Job Description and

Specifications

Job Description

A written statement of what the jobholders do, how

they do it, and why they do it.

Presents the task requirements of the job.

Typically includes the Job Title and Descriptions of the

tasks and machinery involved.

Job Description

Performance Appraisal

Certainly one of the most frequent uses of the Job

Analysis Data.

To conduct a useful and fair performance appraisal,

organizations must have clearly goals, objectives, and
criteria on which employees can be evaluated.

It allows us to distinguish good from bad performance

A criterion is a standard against which you can judge the

performance of anything including person.

Job Description
Characteristics
Actual

of Criteria

Versus Theoretical Criterion

Criteria can be classified as either actual or theoretical

Theoretical Criterion

Is the definition of what good performance is, rather than

how it is measured

Actual Criterion

The way in which the theoretical criterion is assessed or

operationalized

Job Description
Characteristics
Actual

of Criteria

Versus Theoretical Criterion

Job

Theoretical Criterion

Actual Criterion

Artists

Create great works of art

Judgement of art experts

Teacher

Impart knowledge to students

Student achievement test scores

Store Clerk

Provide good service to customers

Survey customer satisfaction with service

Job Description
Characteristics

of Criteria

Contamination, Deficiency, and Relevance

Criterion

Contamination

Refers

to that part of the actual criterion that

reflects something other than what it was
designed to measure.

Can

arise from biases in the criterion and from

unreliability

Job Description
Characteristics

of Criteria

Contamination, Deficiency, and Relevance

Criterion

Deficiency

The

actual criterion does not adequately cover

the entire theoretical criterion.

An

incomplete representation of what we are

trying to assess.

Job Description
Characteristics

of Criteria

Contamination, Deficiency, and Relevance

Criterion
The

Relevance

extent to which the actual criterion assesses

the theoretical criterion, it is designed to
measure, or its construct validity.

Job Specification

It delineate the KSAOs deemed necessary to perform

the job.

Job Specification
Selection

and Placement