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Homework: Workforce Planning; Job Analysis, Job Design- Staffing Organizations
Overview
In this homework, you are heading up a work team with the task of conducting the following:
I. Job description includes basic job-related daqta that is useful to advertise a specific job and attract a pool of talent. It includes information such as job title, job location, reporting to and of employees, job summary, nature and objectives of job, tasks and duties to be performed, working conditions, hazards, machines, tools and eupment to be used by a prospective worker.
II. Job specification is also known as emploee specifications. A job specification is a written statement of educational qualifications, specific qualities, level of experience, physical, emptional, technical and copmmunication skills reuired to perform a job. This also includes responsibilities involved in a job and other unuaual sensory demands such as general health, mental health, intelligence, aptitude, memory, judgement, leaderhip, emotional ability, adaptability, flexibility, values, ethics, manners and creativity.
III. Job design follows job analysis. It aims at outlining and organizing tasks, duties and responsibilities into a single unit of work for the achievement of certain objectives. It also outlines the methods and relationships that are essential for success of a certain job. In simplier terms, it refers to what, how much, how many and the order of tasks for a job.
Case Homework
For this homework, review the following:
Armstrong, M., & Tayler, S. (2020). Chapter 27: Workforce planning. In Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice (15th ed.). Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library, Skillsoft database.
Sparkman, R. (2018). Chapter 1: Strategic workforce planning. In Strategic workforce planning: developing optimized talent strategies for future growth. Kogan Page. ISBN: 9780749482015. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Sparkman, R. (2018). Chapter 7: Skills-based strategic workforce planning. In Strategic workforce planning: developing optimized talent strategies for future growth. Kogan Page. ISBN: 9780749482015. Available in the Trident Online Library.
In this homework, you are the HR Manager at your current employer or an employer you are familiar with. You have a staff whose main function is to analyze the company's employment needs for the next 12 months. Apply your knowledge to design and implement job analysis and job specifications to one job at your company.
Your homework is to analyze the current needs of your company by selecting one of the company's open positions. (You can improvise background data needed for certain steps in the analysis process.)
In your essay, address the three parts of the homework listed below:
Question I. Describe each step your team will take to analyze a specific job. Next, conduct the analysis process as it is currently done at your organization. Discuss in as much detail as possible what your job analysis steps reveal about the selected job.
Question II. Discuss the job specifications for your selected job.
Question III. Meet with a colleague or coworker currently in this position and ask them if there is anything you missed that they would add to the position's specifications.