Question: What do you mean by job analysis? Also, explain the uses of job analysis.
Answer
Job Analysis provides information relating to a job in terms of its title, the operations, and tasks involved in the job, including their timing, significance, complexity, and sequence.
Uses of Job Analysis
Uses of Job Analysis
- Job Analysis is useful in classifying the jobs.
- It provides useful information for forecasting manpower requirements.
- Helps in determining the quality of human resources required in an organization and facilitates the division of work.
- It helps in advertising the posts on the basis of description and specification.
- A clear understanding of job requirements helps in matching the requirements with the abilities, interests, and attitudes of people.
- Job analysis provides valuable information required to identify training needs, design training programmes, and evaluate trading effectiveness.
- Employee development programmes such as job rotary, and job enlargement.
- It facilitates determining performance standards.
- Improvement in work design and work methods.
- Job analysis determines the relative worth of different jobs so as to develop appropriate wage and salary structures.
- It can also contribute to resolving trade disputes and employee grievances.
- Job analysis reveals unhealthy and hazardous environmental conditions in various jobs.
