What Are the Steps Involved in Job Analysis and Planning Flashcards

What are the steps involved in job analysis and planning? If you work in the business world, these flashcards may be a handy tool. A job analysis is a method used to collect information about necessary skills, outcomes, work environment, duties, and responsibilities. You need enough information to create a job description. Read and study these flashcards and then take the quiz to see what you have learned.

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_____ _______ identifies the duties and human requirements of each of the company's jobs.
Job analysis
What is the next step after job analysis?
Decide which of these jobs you need to fill, and to recruit and select employees for them
What are the steps to the recruiting and selection process?
1. deciding what positions to fill, through workforce/personnel planning and forecasting2. building a pool of candidates for these jobs, by recruiting internal or external candidates3. having candidates complete application forms and perhaps undergo initial screening interviews4. using selection tools like tests, background investigations, and physical exams to screen candidates. 5. deciding to whom to make an offer, by having the supervisor and perhaps others interview the candidates.
________ _________ is the process of deciding what positions the firm will have to fill, and how to fill them.
Workforce planning
What is the goal of workforce planning?
To identify and address the gaps between the employer's workforce today, and the firm's projected workforce needs.
What is the process of deciding how to fill executive jobs?
Succession Planning
Like any good plans, employment plans are built on _________ - or basic assumptions about the future.
Forecasts
What are the three sets of forecasts needed in planning for employment requirements?
1. one for personnel needs (demand) 2. one for the supply of inside candidates 3. the supply of outside candidates
A firms ______ _______ reflect demand for its products or services, adjusted for changes the firm plans to make in its strategic goals and for changes in its turnover rate and productivity
Staffing needs
A firms staffing needs reflect demand for its ________ or ________, adjusted for changes the firm plans to make in its ___________ __________ and for changes in its _________ _________ and _____________
Productsservices strategic goals turnover rate productivity
What is the basic process for forecasting personnel needs?
1. forecast revenues2. estimate the size of the staff required to support this sales volume. Also think of strategic factors.
What are the three tools for projecting personnel needs?
Trend analysisration analysis scatter plot
_______ ________ means studying variations in the firm's employment levels over the past few years.
Trend analysis
_____ _________ means making forecasts based on the historical ratio between (1) some causal factor and (2) the number of employees required
Ratio analysis
Ratio analysis involves making forecasts based on the historical ratio between what two things?
1. a causal factor like sales volume 2. the number of employees required