4        Job Analysis, Employee Involvement, and Flexible Work Schedules

 

A.  Job Requirements

                1.  What is a job, a position, and a job family?

 

 

                2.  Recruitment

 

               

                                Job specification

 

 

                3.  Selection

 

 

                                Job description

 

               

                4.  Training and Development

 

 

                5.  Performance Appraisal

 

 

                6.  Compensation Management

 

B.  Job Analysis:

 

                1.  Job Analysis and determining essential job functions

 

               

                2.  Gathering job information

 

 

                3.  Controlling the Accuracy of Job Information

 

               

                4.  Approaches to Job Analysis

                                Functional Job Analysis

 

 

                                Position Analysis Questionnaire System

 

 

                                Critical Incident Method

 

 

                                Work Keys and WPS

 

               

               

C.  Job Descriptions

                1.  What are the essential parts?

 

 

 

 

 

                2.  What are common problems?

 

                3.  What is the key to writing good job descriptions?

 

 

D.  Job Design:

 

                1.  Behavioral Concerns

 

                                Job Enrichment

 

 

 

                                Job Characteristics

 

 

 

                                Employee Empowerment

 

 

                2.  Industrial Engineering

 

 

                3.  Ergonomics

 

 

                4.  Group/Team Contributions    

 

                                Employee Involvement Groups

 

 

                                Employee Teams

 

 

                5.  Flexible Work Schedules

 

                                Compressed Workweek

 

 

                                Flextime

 

               

                                Job Sharing

 

 

                                Telecommuting

 

 

 

Cases:    Stealth Fighters with Virtual Teams

 

 

 

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