Chapter 4

Job Analysis
Part - II

PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie Cook

The University of West Alabama
 🠶 Job Enlargement
🠶 Means assigning additional same-level
activities to employees.
🠶 Job Enrichment
🠶 means redesigning jobs in a way that
Definitions…… increases the opportunities for the
worker to experience feelings of
responsibility, achievement, growth,
and recognition.
🠶 Job Rotation
🠶 Systematically moving workers from one
job to another.
Job Analysis
Questionnaire for
designing Job
Description
 Quantitative Job Analysis
Techniques

Quantitative Job
Analysis

Department of
Position Analysis Functional Job
Labor (DOL)
Questionnaire Analysis
Procedure
 FIGURE 4–5 Portion of a Completed Page from the Position Analysis Questionnaire

The 194 PAQ elements are

grouped into six dimensions.
This exhibit lists 11 of the
“information input” questions
or elements. Other PAQ
pages contain questions
regarding mental processes,
work output, relationships
with others, job context, and
other job characteristics.
TABLE 4–1 Basic Department of Labor Worker Functions
4–
7
FIGURE 4–6 Sample Report Based on Department of Labor Job Analysis Technique
 Writing Job Descriptions
Job
identification

Job Job
specifications summary

Sections of a
Typical Job
Working Description Responsibilities and
conditions duties

Standards of Authority of
performance the incumbent
 The Job Description
🠶 Job Identification 🠶 Responsibilities and
🠶 Job title Duties
🠶 Preparation date 🠶 Major responsibilities and
🠶 Preparer duties (essential functions)
🠶 Job Summary 🠶 Decision-making authority
🠶 Direct supervision
🠶 General nature of the job
🠶 Budgetary limitations
🠶 Major functions/activities
🠶 Relationships 🠶 Standards of Performance
🠶 Reports to:
and Working Conditions
🠶 What it takes to do the job
🠶 Supervises:
successfully
🠶 Works with:
🠶 Outside the company:
FIGURE 4–10 Preliminary Job Description Questionnaire
FIGURE 4–8 Sample Job Description
FIGURE 4–8 Sample Job Description, Pearson Education (cont’d)
Writing Job Descriptions (cont’d)

Step 1. Decide on a Plan

Step 2. Develop an Organization Chart
Step 3. Use a Simplified Job Analysis Questionnaire
Step 4. Obtain List of Job Duties
Step 5. Compile the Job’s Human Requirements
Step 6. Finalize the Job Description
 Group Assignment - 1
🠶 Develop a JD using preliminary job description questionnaire (Figure
4-10) and then develop JD according to sample JD (Figure: 4-8).
🠶 You can form group of 2-3 members.
🠶 Due date : 5/12/2021
🠶 Relative marking.
🠶 Presentation also count.
🠶 Assignment must have:
🠶 Title page
🠶 Job Description
🠶 Fully filled preliminary job questionnaire
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