Editors
Chmiel, NikFraccaroli, Franco
Sverke, Magnus
Issue Date
2017-03-11
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What do people really do at work? Or to phrase the question differently, what is the content and nature of different jobs in organizations? What should people do in their respective jobs in order to deliver organizational strategy? This chapter introduces the means by which these questions are answered: job analysis. In this chapter, job analysis is defined, and its place within a number of wider organisational systems is explored. Following this, the distinction is drawn between two broad types of analysis: work-oriented and worker-oriented analysis in terms of their focus and the end products that they are used to generate. A number of both work- and worker-oriented methods for the collection of job analysis data are described, after which are considered some specific organisational contexts in which job analysis data is used in the form of Training Needs Analysis and job design. Finally, two modern alternatives to the classical approach to job analysis are described: competency profiling and work analysis. These approaches are explored in terms of the benefits that they can provide to practitioners in overcoming some of the limitations of traditional approaches to job analysis in the modern working world.Citation
In: Nik Chmiel, Franco Fraccaroli, Magnus Sverke (Editors), An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology: An International Perspective, 3rd Edition, Ch 1Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellAdditional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119168058.ch1Type
Chapter in bookLanguage
enISBN
9781119168058ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/9781119168058.ch1