Human Resources (Test #1)
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- Argue that jobs no longer exist in modern organizations due to the dynamic nature of work in rapidly changin business environments.
- Job Extinction
- What are the four concepts of a job?
- Task, duty, position, & job
- A meaningful unit of work activity generally performed on the job by one worker within some limited time period...it is a discrete unit of activity and represents a composite of methods, procedures, and techniques.
- Task
- Area of work that contains several distinct tasks that are performed by an individual
- Duty
- A set of tasks and duties performed by a single individual in an organization.
- Position
- A group of positions that are identical with respect to their major or significant tasks and sufficiently alike to justify their being covered by a single analysis
- Job
- Are dynamic, comprehensice, and subjective, rather than static, narrow, and objective
- Behavioral Contracting
- Obtaining information about jobs
- Job Analysis
- Written narrative of the activities performed on a job as well as information about the equipment used and working conditions in which the job is performed
- Job Description
- Outline of the specific skills, knowledge, abilities, and other physical and personal characteristics that are necessary to perform a job
- Job Specification