Reference no: EM132871444

You have recently been hired as the HR manager for Fleetwood Podcasting service, a Canadian audio marketing and podcast development company. The company's environment is competitive and constantly changing. There continues to be an increased demand for customized marketing systems that improve online and podcast marketing for a wide range of Canadian businesses.

Due to Fleetwood's growth in sales, the company is anticipating the need for an increase from 65 to 100 employees. The company requires highly skilled content developers, computer programmers, sales professionals, and support staff. The majority of employees, from younger technical support staff to senior management, stated that work-life balance is important to them and that they want more flexibility in how and when their work gets done. Job demands are changing constantly because of the dynamic environment. There are concerns of sex, age, and family status discrimination with the office administration employees. The CEO has stated that Fleetwood has a few outdated job advertisements, but that the company never had time to write job descriptions. Managers have expressed concerns that job descriptions are of limited value because positions need to adapt to the high speed of change and that they limit their flexibility in supervising employees' tasks.

The senior management team is meeting tomorrow. They have asked you to prepare remarks that will address their questions. Here are the questions they have:

• Why is it important for Fleetwood to conduct a job analysis?
• Given Fleetwood's current situation, please explain the 2 most important factors or considerations before you begin the job analysis?
• Please identify and describe two job analysis methods that you might use for Fleetwood.
• What would you expect to be some recruitment and selection outcomes of Fleetwood's job analysis process?