A Practical Guide to Job Analysis

by Erich P. Prien, Jeanette Goodstein, Leonard D. Goodstein

Presenting the first book that provides HR professionals with a context for understanding the importance of doing a proper job analysis together with a step-by-step guide to conducting such an analysis. This unique guide contains a series of eight ready-to-use templates that provide the basis for conducting job analyses for eight different levels of job families, from the entry-level to the senior manager/executive.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Fred Cheyunski · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Practical Guide Indeed! - This book is indeed a "practical guide to job analysis."

While some have questioned the use of job descriptions, the authors explain the reasons why having a good understanding of job requirements can be helpful in basic human resource and talent management activities such as hiring and other aspects of the human capital life cycle.

Prien, Goodstein, Goodstein and Gamble pay much attention to work activities and how they relate to job roles. They provide templates for addressing a number of major job type categories. These templates include checklists and descriptives not only for work activities for the different role types, but also for determining associated behaviors, skills and abilities or competencies.

The co-authors also provide means of describing workplace characteristics and climate as well as behavioral anchored rating scales (BARS) in assessing jobs. As with the various templates, they offer much valuable "how to."

Consider this book as a useful and helpful reference for job analysis and design.

[Subah Al · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highlights the importance of job analysis and it's contributions to the workplace, moreover, offers quite helpful templates that can be used as a beginning step to be modified as per your organization's requirements.

[Kerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Practical with some good tools. The tools are also available electronically which is helpful. This book is quick and eay to read. This is worth a read if you're doing this work, but it probably won't be thd only source you'll want to use.

[Hana Bilqisthi · Rating 3 out of 5]

buku yg lebih banyak kuesioner dibanding isi teorinya .. hahahha..

[Emil O. W. Kirkegaard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is alright. The book is only about 100 pages. The book appendix is just a set of pre-made surveys one can use, presented in very redundant format.