Workforce Planning; Job Analysis, Job Design
Assignment Overview
Job Analysis and Job Design
In this assignment, you are heading up a work team with the task of completing a company-wide review of job descriptions, job specifications, and job design:
- Job specifications, also known as employee specifications, is a written statement of educational qualifications, any specific qualities needed to be successful in the job, the highest or lowest level of related experience, technical skills, and any special communication skills required to perform a job.
- A job description includes the basic job-related data that is useful to advertise a specific job to attract a targeted pool of people with specific talent. It includes a variety of information: job title, job location, number of employees reporting to the person holding the job, a summary of the job to be performed, detailed list of tasks and duties to be performed, the workplace conditions, potential hazards in the workplace, any machines or equipment that will be used by the job holder.
- The order of these 3 tasks begins with creating a job description, followed by a job specification list, which is then followed by the completion of a job design. After all, one cannot design a job without a detailed list of specifications. A job design organizes tasks, duties, and responsibilities into a work unit that relates to job objectives. Basically, a job design refers to what will be done, when it will be done, where it will be done, who will be part of the team to get the work done, and the required tasks to do a job for a specific amount of money.
Case Assignment
For this assignment, 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). Strategic workforce planning. Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library.
In this assignment, 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 assignment 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 assignment listed below:
- 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 revealed about the selected job.
- Discuss the job specifications for your selected job.
- 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. TIP: The HR manager could be of assistance to you regarding the process as it is currently done at your place of employment.
See the Trident guide to APA Style, 7th edition.
Assignment Expectations
Refer to background readings and what you have found in the Trident Online Library. Cite all sources used to help you through these steps. Support your discussion of key concepts in this Case Assignment with at least two high- quality references found in a peer-reviewed journal or textbook in the Trident Online Library. In addition, cite any references used from the assigned readings. NOTE: High-quality peer-reviewed sources are rarely found during an online search.
Your essay submission should be 3-4 pages (or not less than 3 full pages), not counting the cover page and reference list page. Use Times New Roman (or Arial) size 12 font; double-space everything, including references, but do not add extra spacing between paragraphs or after headings; and, make sure your margins are one inch on all four sides. You can view how the cover page content should appear in the sample paper found in the APA Style, 7th edition. Use the assignment template,
Student papers do not require a running head on any page. In addition, students are not required to include an Abstract. If you do include an Abstract, it will not count toward your page count.
Your paper’s title must be above the first paragraph on page two (there can be no paragraph with the title of “Introduction”). Last, all pages must have a page number in the top-right corner.
Your submission will be assessed on the criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment.