Homework: HR Management- Job Description
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with experience in conducting a job analysis and writing a job description. The main components of a job description are (a) job title and organizational information, (b) position purpose (summary statement), (c) job duties, (d) working conditions, and (5) qualifications (job specifications). As noted in the text, job descriptions are important for many personnel decisions. To serve HR purposes most effectively, the job description must be current and accurate and it must be consistent with the goals and objectives of the organization.
Your homework is to write a job description for a job of your choice using information from O*Net and the interview method. Ideally, you should choose a job which you hope to obtain after graduating.
Step I: Watch this YouTube video: "Dr. G's MGT 345 Project #1 Walk-through".
Step II: The following page provides space for you to record the questions generated in class. If you haven't done so already, you also need to identify a person to interview. This should be someone who currently holds your chosen job (i.e., a job incumbent).
Step III: You will then need to interview the job incumbent. Keep in mind that a job incumbent may unintentionally withhold important information or may enhance the importance of his/her duties. Thus, information from O*Net should be used to supplement your data. You may not find an exact job title match in O*Net, but you should be able to find something very similar (which is what we call a benchmark job). You might find it easier to do the interview if you FIRST look-up the job on O*Net. The information available in O*Net will provide you with some basic understanding and terminology for this job's responsibilities.
Step IV: You should integrate the interview and O*Net information to create a single Job Description.
Step V: Finally, write a 2 paged reflection on the homework answering the following questions:
1) What did you learn from this homework?
2) Whom did you interview and why did you choose to interview them?
3) How did the information from the interview compare to information on O*Net?
4) What did you find the most challenging aspect of this homework? The most rewarding?
5) Any other thoughts.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.