Job Analysis

Running head : Job Analysis and Human Resource Management

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Introduction

How does an organization involved in business manage to do all the business operations in the right manner until the objectives of the business are met ? Business management involves controlling , organizing as well as leading organization 's resources to achieve the goals of the business . There are various types of resources in a business . One of them that is always important is the human resource . This is the area that concerns the human

resource manager of an organization . This position of managing the human resource is very important and requires specific skills since dealing with human discretion behavior is not easy (Mathis and Jackson , 2006

Organizations adopt different strategies used to manage the resources whether human or not . These strategies have always to be influenced by the employees who are the core resource of the organization (Mathis and Jackson , 2006 . An example is an organization with a knowledge based strategy . In finding out the capabilities of the organization in terms of knowledge , the human resource manager has to consider the employees since it is them to gain the knowledge , to be trained and to make use of the knowledge that they have been given (McCourt et al , 2003

Another example is in determining the how an organization performs . A human resource manager should be able to identify what can make the organization perform to the required standards . Whoever makes the performance of the organization be good is always the employee , if the human resource manager knows what skill in the employee to use , how to utilize it for the benefit of the company and how to treat employee (Mathis and Jackson , 2006 . The major concern in organizational management therefore , is the human resource manager and the employees

The employees are the people to perform the jobs and the human resource manager is the party responsible for ensuring that the right person is assigned the right job . This calls for the process of job analysis Job analysis is the identification and assessment of the requirements of a job (McCourt et al , 2003 . Different organizations have different aims and different functions therefore will have different job analysis procedures

An information technology firm for example will not have the same kind of job analysis as a chemical company . These two companies have different staff requirements since they perform different functions The chemical company will require people with skills on chemical handling under different working environments for example chemical laboratories , while the information technology company will require workers with skills on information technology with information technology machines

It is the responsibility of a human resource manager to ensure that the right skill is employed in the right place of work in the organization Human resource managers have the responsibility of determining the staff requirements of the company and assign duties , therefore job analysis will be of great importance to the manager . This will discuss the roles of a human...