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CHARACTERISTICS OF JOB ANALYSIS


CHARACTERISTICS OF JOB ANALYSIS

    The following characteristics of job analysis are important:

1. It should be distinguished from worker analysis, which focuses attention on the characteristics of employee, using physical examination, tests interview and other procedure for this purpose.

2. Job analysis is also different from ‘work study’.

3. Job analysis is conducted post facto. It is done after the job has become designed, suitable training is given to the worker and the job is already being performed.

4. In job analysis facts are gathered, analysed and recorded with respects to the job as it exists.

5. It comprises there distinct components: job description, job specification, and job performance standards.

6. It is an essential and pervasive human resource technique.

7. Job analysis, like organisation planning, is a method of establishing a base against which the actual behavior of a firm’s employees may be evaluating.

8. It is a word picture of the organisational relationships, responsibilities, and specific duties that constitute a given job or position.

9. Job analysis is a part of overall work planning called ‘work design’.

10. Jobs analysis is a formal and detailed study of jobs.

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