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Job and Work Analysis
A comprehensive textbook detailing the methods, research, and applications of job and work analysis as the foundational tool for effective and legally defensible human resource management.
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What it’s about
Job and Work Analysis provides students and HR professionals with a complete toolkit for understanding what people do at work and why it matters. The book argues that virtually every human resource function—from hiring the right people and training them effectively, to setting fair pay and designing motivating jobs—rests on a solid foundation of rigorous job analysis. It systematically explores a variety of proven methods, including work-oriented techniques like task inventories, worker-oriented approaches like the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), and modern hybrid methods like O*NET. With a dedicated focus on legal compliance and practical application, this guide walks you through the entire process, showing you how to select the right method for your purpose, conduct a study, and apply the results to build HR systems that are both strategically effective and legally sound.
The through-line
- Who it’s for
- An HR professional, manager, or student who wants to build effective, fair, and legally defensible human resource systems to solve persistent people-related problems in their organization.
- The problem
- They need to create valid selection procedures, design relevant training programs, establish equitable pay structures, and write accurate job descriptions, but lack a systematic, data-driven method for understanding the work their people actually do. They feel uncertain and overwhelmed, fearing they might make bad hires, waste money on ineffective training, create pay inequity, or expose their organization to costly lawsuits.
- The plan
- Understand the foundational concepts and building blocks of all job analysis methods.
- Learn the major work-oriented, worker-oriented, and hybrid techniques for analyzing jobs.
- Discover how to apply job analysis results to solve practical HR problems in staffing, training, compensation, and legal compliance.
- Follow a step-by-step guide to conducting your own job analysis study from planning to reporting.
- The payoff
- Become a confident expert capable of building and defending effective HR systems based on a solid understanding of work. · Improve organizational effectiveness through better hiring, targeted training, and fair compensation. · Minimize legal risk by ensuring all employment practices are job-related and defensible.
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