"Chapter 5: Job analysis, jobdesign and quality of worklife ? On successful completion of this slide set, youwill be able to: ? Explain job analysis and job design ? Outline the uses of job analysis ? Describe the content and format of a job descriptionand a job specification ? Discuss the collection of job analysis data ? Explain the major job analysis techniques ? Discuss competency profiling ? Outline the major methods of job design ? Discuss quality of work life? Australian professionals working asindependent contractors like their career choicebecause of greater freedom, more flexible hoursand increased variety of work. ? Research shows that it can take employees upto 50 per cent longer to complete tasks whenmultitasking. Multitasking is also associatedwith increased employee stress. What is suggested by these facts?Broadband? Job analysis: ? A systematic investigation of the tasks, duties andresponsibilities of a job and the necessaryknowledge, skills and abilities a person needs toperform the job adequately. ? Components: ? Job content ? Job requirements ? Job context.? Approaches ? A job orientated or task approach ? An employee orientated (or behaviour) approach ? When to analyse a job ? When the organisation commences ? When a new job is created ? When a job is changed significantly.? Job description ? Defines what a job is by identifying its content,requirements and context. ? Job specifications ? Focus on the skills, abilities, knowledge, personalcharacteristics and formal qualifications needed ? Job design ? Identifies what work must be performed, how it willbe performed, where it is to be performed and whowill perform it.? For example: ? To design and implement training programs ? To help create a healthy and safe work environment ? To ensure legal compliance (next slide) ? To help establish whether a person should beclassified as an employee or as an independentcontractor."