Job Design Case

Job Design would be the process where the management or Human Resource (HR) decides the content of a job in terms of the duties and their responsibilities. It creates the way how the job has to be carried out in terms of techniques, systems and procedures. It also determines the how the relationship should exist between the job holder, the supervisors, subordinates and colleagues. Job design is concerned with changing, modifying and enriching jobs in order to capture the talents of employees while improving the overall performances. It is more concerned on the productivity of the employees and satisfaction. The purpose of job design would be how job is to be performed, who is going to perform it, and where would be the destination it is going to be performed. Job design would ask the person how he feels about his work and how much decision making the employee possesses. It also builds the interpersonal relationships. Job designs function would be to meet the organizational requirements like productivity, efficiency, quality of product and to satisfy the needs of the individual employees like interests, challenges, achievement or accomplishment.

Job Analysis helps people do their jobs and what is required in order to do the job pleasingly. It identifies the duties that define a job. Job analysis is based on 4R's. "Right Person, Right time, Right Work and Right Place." It is the basis of all human resource activities. Job analysis is the foundation of every other area of HR for job evaluation as well as the procedure for setting salary scales. The gathering, documenting and analyzing data about the work is considered as Job Analysis. The job analysis includes the position analysis, questionnaires with generalized human behavior, interviews, task inventories, fundamental job analysis and the job element methods. The main purpose of job analysis is to provide the clear view of what the job is not the person performing the job. It provides fundamental information to support all the HR activities. Job analysis helps in recruitment training, development, performance management and the planning.

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