BU354

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BU354

• Session 6
• Job Design

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AGENDA

• Course details
• Schedule change
• Absences experiential exercises
• Group Field Assignments
• Job Design
• Theory
• Practice
• Next Class

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Job Design - Key Considerations
Job Design
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Organizational

• Effort
• Time
• Labour costs
• Employee learning time/training
• Sequence and balance between jobs

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Ergonomic
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Environmental

• Labour supply
• Social expectations
• Past practice

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Individual
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Components of Jobs
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Optimal Job Specialization
Disadvantages
Advantages
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Documents

• Job Specification
• .
• .
• Job Description
• .

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Problems with Job Descriptions

• Not updated when duties specs change
• Duties may be vague
• Can limit scope
• Contain specs not related to job
• Provide incorrect or poor information to staff
  and managers

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Good Job Descriptions

• Simple, direct language
• Sentences begin with verb
• Duties and responsibilities must be essential
  functions of the job
• Phrase employee will perform other duties as
  directed is not excuse for lack of rigour

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Job Design Process
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NEXT CLASS

• Workforce Planning
• Read
• Schwind, et al, Ch. 3
• Sullivan, J. (2002). Workforce. Why to Start
  Now.
• Patterson, B. and Lindsey, S. (2003). HR
  Magazine. Weighing Resources.