Collection of Job Analysis Data

Question

What do you understand by Collection of Job Analysis Data?

Answer 1

Job data on features of the job, requited employee qualification and requirements, should be collected either form the employees who actually perform a job; or from other employees (such as foremen or supervisors) who watch the workers doing a job and there by acquire knowledge about it; or from the outside persons, known as the trade job analysis who are appointed to watch employees performing a job. The duties of such a trade job analyst are

a. To outline the complete scope of a job and to consider all the physical and mental activities involved in determining what the worker does

b. Find out why a worker does a job; and for this purpose he studies why each task is essential for the overall result; and

c. The skill factor which may be needed in the worker to differentiate between jobs and establish the extent of the difficulty of any job.