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Chapter 4 – Strategic Job
Analysis and Competency
Modeling
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Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able
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Explain why job analysis can be strategic.
Describe different types of job analyses, and what
they are used for.
Define “job description” and “person specification”
and describe how they are used.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of
different job analysis methods.
Describe how to plan a job analysis.
Describe how to conduct a job analysis.
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Job Analysis
Definition: a systematic process of identifying and
describing the important aspects of a job and the
characteristics workers need to perform the job well
Job analyses are used for multiple purposes, including:
▪ Determining job entry requirements
▪ Developing a company’s strategic recruiting plan
▪ Selecting individuals for employment
▪ Developing employee training plans
▪ Designing compensation systems
▪ Developing performance evaluation measures
Job analyses also help group jobs into job families or
groupings of jobs that either call for similar worker
characteristics or contain parallel work tasks
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Job Families
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Job Analysis for Staffing
A job analysis that produces a valid selection system
identifies worker characteristics that:
▪ Distinguish superior from average and unacceptable workers;
▪ Are not easily learned on the job; and
▪ Exist to at least a moderate extent in the applicant pool.
Future-oriented job analysis: job analysis technique for
analyzing new jobs or analyzing how jobs will look in the
future
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Job-Worker Match
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Legal Requirements
To meet legal requirements, a job analysis must:
▪ Be valid and identify the worker knowledge, skills,
abilities, and other characteristics necessary to perform
the job and differentiate superior from barely acceptable
workers
▪ Be in writing and relevant to the particular job in question
▪ Be derived from multiple sources
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Practical Reasons to do a
Job Analysis
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Job Description
A written description of the duties and responsibilities
associated with the job itself.
Job descriptions usually include:
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The size and type of organization
The department and job title
The salary range
Position grade or level
To whom the employee reports and for whom the employee is responsible
Brief summary of the main duties and responsibilities of the job
Brief summary of the occasional duties and responsibilities of the job
Any special equipment used on the job
Any special working conditions (e.g. shift or weekend work, foreign travel,
etc.)
▪ Purpose and frequency of contact with others
▪ The statement, “Other duties as assigned” to accommodate job changes and
special projects
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Person Specification
▪Person specification: summarizes the
characteristics of someone able to perform the job
well
▪Essential criteria: job candidate characteristics that
are critical to adequate performance of a new hire
▪Desirable criteria: job candidate criteria that may
enhance the new hire’s job success, but that are
not essential to adequate job performance
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Outcomes of Job Analysis
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Job Analysis Methods
Must be:
▪ Reliable, or replicable
◦ A reliable job analysis procedure will produce the same
results when it 1) is applied to the same job by a
different job specialist; 2) when a different group of job
experts is used; and 3) when it is done at a different
time.
▪ Valid, or accurately measure what it was intended to
measure
◦ A valid job analysis accurately captures the target job.
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Job Analysis Techniques
▪Critical incidents technique: identifies behaviors extremely
effective or extremely ineffective behaviors by documenting
critical incidents that have occurred on the job
▪Job elements method: uses expert brainstorming sessions to
identify the characteristics of successful workers
▪Structured interview technique: subject matter experts provide
information about the job verbally in structured interviews
▪Task inventory approach: job experts generate a list of 50-200
tasks that are grouped in categories reflecting major work
functions that are then evaluated on dimensions relevant for
selection
▪Structured Questionnaires: involves using a list of preplanned
questions designed to analyze a job (e.g., the Position Analysis
Questionnaire or PAQ)
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Planning Job Analyses
Job analyses should be performed in such a way as
to meet the professional and legal guidelines that
have been published in the Uniform Guidelines on
Employee Selection Procedures
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Planning Job Analyses
▪Determine time and resources necessary and
available
▪Collect background information about the company,
its culture and business strategy, the job, and the
job’s contribution to strategy execution and
competitive advantage
▪O*NET - Occupational Information Network
(http://online.onetcenter.org/)
▪Identify job experts
▪Identify appropriate job analysis technique(s) to use
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Job Analysis Steps
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Task Statements
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Job Duties
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Weighting Job Duties
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Job Requirements Matrix
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Competency Modeling
▪Definition: a job analysis method that identifies the
necessary worker competencies for high performance
▪Competencies: more broadly defined components of a
successful worker’s repertoire of behavior needed to do a
job well
▪Because competencies are linked to the organization’s
business goals, strategy, and values, a person specification
resulting from a job description can enhance hiring quality
and strategy execution
▪A competency-based job description:
▪ Enhances a manager’s flexibility in assigning work
▪ Lengthens the life of a job description
▪ Can allow firms to group jobs requiring similar competencies under a
single job description
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Competencies Related to Specific Job
Environments
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Job Rewards Analysis
Job rewards analysis: identifies the intrinsic and
extrinsic rewards of a job
▪ Analyzes the intrinsic rewards that are non-monetary and
derived from the work itself and the firm’s culture
◦ Including the satisfaction of meeting personal goals, great coworkers,
continuous learning, and doing meaningful work.
▪ Analyzes the extrinsic rewards that have monetary value
◦ Including base pay, bonuses, and benefits.
The combination of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
are a job’s total rewards
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Job Rewards Analysis, cont.
Employee value proposition (EVP): the intrinsic and
extrinsic rewards an employee receives by working
for a particular employer in return for their job
performance
Communicating your EVP:
▪ First determine exactly what attracts job candidates, and
why employees enjoy their work.
▪ Then craft a message to clearly state what makes your
company the obvious choice over the competition.
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3 Criteria for Employee
Value Propositions
1. Magnitude refers to a reward package that is neither too
small nor too large in economic terms.
• Spending too much on rewards can negatively impact the firm’s
financial stability, and hurt investor relations.
2. Mix refers to the composition of the reward package
matching the needs and preferences of applicants or
employees.
• Offering stock options that vest in five years to a young, mobile
workforce, or free daycare to an older workforce is not
consistent with workers’ needs and preferences.
3. Distinctiveness refers to the uniqueness of the total
reward package.
• Rewards with no special appeal and that do not set the
organization apart as distinctive do not present a compelling
value proposition.
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Job Reward Dimensions
Amount refers to how much of it is received.
▪ how much pay, what level of task variety
Differential is how consistent the reward is across different
employees.
▪ all employees receive the same number of vacation days, but
merit bonuses range from 2% to 15% of base pay
Stability is how reliable the reward is.
◦ Is the reward the same all of the time, or does it change (e.g.,
does it vary based on organizational performance or business
requirements?)
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Job Rewards Matrix
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Job Rewards Matrix, cont.
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Discussion Questions
Why do you think some organizations choose to
not perform job analyses given their benefits?
What could be done to increase their
willingness to analyze jobs?
How can job analysis make staffing more
strategic?
How do you personally evaluate different job
opportunities and decide which to pursue?
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Discussion Questions
If supervisors and job incumbents disagreed about the
relative importance and weights of various job duties, how
would you reconcile their conflicting opinions? For example,
if a supervisor emphasized the technical aspects of a
customer service representative’s job and the representatives
emphasized the interpersonal aspects of listening to
customers and understanding their problems, what would
you do?
Some jobs change so rapidly that companies do not feel
doing a job analysis is worthwhile because by the time one is
done, it’s already outdated. What advice would you give such
a company to help them take advantage of the benefits a job
analysis has to offer without wasting unnecessary time and
resources doing a traditional job analysis?
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Develop Your Skills Exercise
▪Working in a group of 3-4 people, do a job rewards
analysis on the job one of your group members
holds (or has held). Use the questionnaire in this
chapter’s Develop Your Skills feature as part of your
analysis.
▪Summarize your analysis in a job rewards matrix.
▪Then apply the results and describe the type of
potential job applicant to which each reward might
appeal.
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Opening Vignette Exercise
The opening vignette describes MITRE’s effort to develop a
competency model for its sytems engineers. As explained in
the vignette, systems engineering is a broad discipline
requiring a variety of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other
characteristics. Performing a job analysis or developing a
competency model for this type of job requires using
different methods than would doing the same for a more
static, lower-skilled job such as a cashier or mail sorter.
Your assignment for this exercise is to describe how you
would conduct a job analysis or create a competency model
differently for these two types of jobs. How would the
process differ? Would you use different sources of
information?
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Chern’s Case Study
a)
Using O*Net and other sources of data,
create a job requirements matrix.
b)
For each competency or KSAO, decide if it
should be used to hire or plan to develop.
c)
Estimate how important each characteristic
is relative to the others as well as the
relative time spent on each job duty.
d)
Create a job rewards matrix.
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Chapter 5 – Forecasting
and Planning
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Learning Objectives
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After studying this chapter, you
should be able to:
Describe the workforce planning process.
Discuss how an organization can predict its future
business activity.
Describe how an organization can forecast its
demand for workers.
Explain how to forecast the likely supply of available
workers from inside and outside the firm.
Discuss how to develop action plans to address gaps
between labor supply and labor demand.
Describe the staffing planning process.
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Workforce Planning
▪The availability of the talent needed to execute a desired
business strategy will be an influence whether or not that
strategy is ultimately successful.
▪Workforce planning: the process of predicting an
organization’s future employment needs and the availability
of current employees and external hires to meet those
employment needs and execute the organization’s business
strategy.
▪Workforce planning is the foundation of strategic staffing
because it identifies and addresses future challenges to a
firm’s ability to get the right talent in place at the right time
to execute its business strategy.
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Workforce Planning Process
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Identify the business strategy.
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Articulate the firm’s talent philosophy and strategic staffing
decisions.
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Conduct a workforce analysis.
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Develop and implement action plans. Develop action plans to
address any gaps between labor demand and labor supply
forecasts.
• The action plans should be consistent with the firm’s talent
philosophy, and can include recruiting, retention, compensation,
succession management, and training and development.
• Action plans can be short-term or long-term, depending on the
firm’s needs and the predictability of the environment.
Monitor, evaluate, and revise the forecasts and action plans. As the
environment changes, forecasts and action plans may need to
change as well.
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Workforce Planning Process, cont.
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Forecasting
▪Given the uncertainty of forecasts, construct
estimates as a range, providing low, probable, and
high estimates.
▪Recalculate estimates as changes happen in the
organization’s internal and external environments
and as the firm’s assumptions and expectations
change.
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Forecasting Business Activity
An organization’s product demand directly affects
its need for labor
Locate reliable, high-quality information sources
within and outside of the organization to forecast
business activity
Types of business activity forecasts:
▪ Seasonal
▪ Interest rate
▪ Currency exchange
▪ Competitors
▪ Industry and economic
▪ Others
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Forecasting Labor Demand
It is a good idea to identify minimal as well as optimal
staffing levels when analyzing labor demand.
An organization’s demand for labor depends on its
forecasted business activity and its business needs, which
depend on its business strategy.
Business needs can include things like:
▪ Achieving the staffing levels necessary for generating a
given amount of revenue within a particular period of
time (e.g., salesperson staffing levels necessary to
generate $5 million of revenue within 6 months)
▪ Increasing staffing levels to execute a growth strategy
▪ Decreasing staffing levels during a restructuring
▪ Obtaining the new talents needed to create new products
or provide different services
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Ratio Analysis
Assumes that there is a relatively fixed ratio
between the number of employees needed and
certain business metrics.
▪ Using historical patterns within the firm helps to establish
a reasonable range for these ratios.
▪ This process can be used for either justifying new
positions or demonstrating the need for layoffs.
Need consistent historical trends to calculate ratios.
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Possible Ratios
▪Production to employees
▪Revenue per employee
▪Managers to employees
▪Inventory levels to employees
▪Number of customers or customer orders to
employees
▪Labor costs to all production costs
▪The percent utilization of production capacity to
employees
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Scatter Plots
Show graphically how two different variables (e.g.,
revenue and staffing levels) are related.
If an area has a
population of
44,000 then 8
ambulance drivers
would be
predicted to be
needed
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Trend Analysis
▪Uses past employment patterns to predict future needs.
▪ For example, if a company has been growing five percent annually for the
last eight years, it might assume that it will experience the same five
percent annual growth for the next few years.
▪Any employment trends that are likely to continue can be useful
in forecasting labor demand.
▪Because so many factors can also affect staffing needs, including
competition, the economic environment, and changes in how the
company gets its work done (e.g., automation might improve
productivity), trend analysis is rarely used by itself in making
labor demand forecasts.
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Trend Analysis
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Judgmental Forecasting
▪Relies on the experience and insights of people in the organization to
predict future needs.
▪Top-down: organizational leaders rely on their experience and
knowledge of their industry and company to make predictions about
what future staffing levels will need to be. Top managers’ estimates
then become staffing goals for the lower levels in the organization.
▪ In some cases, particularly when companies are facing financial
difficulties or restructuring, budgets may determine these headcount
numbers.
▪Bottom-up: uses the input of lower-level managers in estimating
staffing requirements. Based on supervisors’ understanding of the
business strategy, each level provides an estimate of their staffing needs
to execute the strategy. The estimates are consolidated and modified as
they move up the organization’s hierarchy until top management
formalizes the company’s estimate of its future staffing needs into
staffing goals.
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The Role of Judgment
▪Because historical trends and relationships can
change, it is usually best to supplement the more
mechanical ratio, scatter plot, and trend forecasting
methods with managerial judgment.
▪The more mechanical methods can be used as a
starting point and managerial input then used to
modify the estimates.
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Return on Investment Analysis
▪Estimate the return on investment from adding a new position based on the
costs and outcomes resulting from that new hire.
▪First assign dollar values to the benefits you expect from a new hire for the
period of time most appropriate for the position and your organization.
▪ How much revenue during the period will be directly generated as a result of this
position?
▪ How much money per period will this position save your organization in terms of
increased efficiency, and how much value will it add in greater productivity, quality,
or customer service?
▪Then compare this amount with the cost of adding the new hire.
▪ Compute the cost of hiring, including advertising the position, interviewing,
screening, travel, relocation, and training expenses.
▪ Add this to the compensation for the new position during the time period to get
your initial investment.
▪Compare this amount with the value your company will gain to determine the
return on the investment of adding the new position.
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Forecasting Labor Supply
▪Combining current staffing levels with anticipated
staffing gains and losses results in an estimate of the
supply of labor for the target position at a certain point
in the future.
▪ Anticipated gains and losses can be based on historical data
combined with managerial estimates of future changes.
▪The external labor market consists of people who do
not currently work for a firm.
▪A firm’s internal labor market consists of the firm’s
current employees.
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Forecasting the Internal
Labor Market
Estimate the competency levels and number of employees
likely to be working for the company at the end of the
forecasting period.
To forecast internal talent resources for a position, subtract
anticipated losses from the number of employees in the target
position at the beginning of the forecasting period.
▪ Losses may be due to promotions, demotions, transfers,
retirements, resignations, etc. When workers are harder to find,
more employees than usual may leave the organization to pursue
other opportunities than leave during looser labor markets when
jobs are less plentiful.
▪ Anticipated gains from transfers, promotions, and demotions are
then added to the internal labor supply forecast.
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Transition Analysis
▪A quantitative technique used to analyze internal labor
markets and forecast internal labor supply.
▪A simple but often effective technique for analyzing an
organization’s internal labor market, which can be useful in
answering recruits’ questions about promotion paths and
the likelihood of promotions as well as in workforce
planning.
▪Can also forecast the number of people who currently work
for the organization likely to still be employed in various
positions at some point in the future.
▪The analysis is best performed for a limited number of jobs
at a time to keep it easily interpretable.
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Transition Analysis Process
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Transition Analysis
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Using the Transition Probability Matrix
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Internal Labor Market
Forecasting Methods
▪Judgment
▪Talent inventories: summarize each employee’s skills, competencies, and
qualifications
▪Replacement charts: visually shows each of the possible successors for a job
and summarizes their present performance, promotion readiness, and
development needs
▪Employee surveys to identify the potential for increased turnover in the future
▪Labor supply chain management: The basic foundation of any supply chain
model is to have the right product, in the right volume, in the right place, at
the right time, with the right quality
◦ Businesses use multiple suppliers so that they can quickly change and scale to meet
changing business needs.
◦ Supply chain management principles of inventory management, planning, and
optimization can be easily applied to people.
◦ Software and services allow companies to match employees' expertise and
knowledge to business needs and deploy the right people just as assets would be
deployed in a supply chain.
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Replacement Chart
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Forecasting the External
Labor Market
Organizations monitor the external labor market in
two ways.
◦ The first is through their own observations and
experiences. For example, are the quality and
quantity of applicants responding to job
announcements improving or getting worse?
◦ The second way is by monitoring labor market
statistics generated by others.
◦ U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and others
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Resolving Labor
Supply/Demand Gaps
▪Action plans proactively address an anticipated
surplus or shortage of employees.
▪Whether a shortage or surplus of applicants is the
result of temporary factors or whether it reflects a
trend that is likely to continue, is an important
factor to understand, because different staffing
strategies are appropriate for each.
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Temporary Talent Shortage
▪Because higher salaries cost the organization more money throughout
the new hire’s tenure with the company, hiring inducements that last
only as long as the talent shortage does are often better.
▪Companies often turn to more expensive recruiting methods such as
search firms, or lower their hiring standards so that more recruits are
considered qualified.
▪ Neither of these strategies is guaranteed to work
▪ More expensive recruiting methods may quickly drain a recruiting
budget without resulting in an acceptable hire
▪ Lowering hiring standards decreases the quality of the company’s
workforce, which may not be acceptable
▪Options include offering hiring incentives such as sign-on bonuses and
retention bonuses such as stock options or cash to be paid after the
employee has successfully worked with the company for a certain
period of time.
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Persistent Talent Shortage
If it is likely that a worker shortage will last a
number of years, an organization must:
◦ Reduce its demand for the talents that will be in
short supply
◦ By increasing their use of automation and technology,
and by redesigning jobs so that fewer people with the
desired talent are needed.
◦ And/or increase the supply of the qualifications it
needs
◦ This is not a fast or practical solution for most
organizations.
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Temporary Employee Surplus
▪If slowdowns are cyclical or happen frequently, using
temporary or contingent workers who are the first to be let
go when business slows can help to provide a buffer around
key permanent workers.
▪Temporary layoffs may need to last more than six months to
be cost-effective due to severance costs, greater
unemployment insurance premiums, temporary
productivity declines, and the rehiring and retraining
process.
▪ Losing the investments the organization has already made
in hiring and training the laid off workers can also be
costly.
▪Alternatives to layoffs include across-the-board salary cuts
or a reduction in work hours, or reallocating workers to
expand other areas of the business.
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Permanent Employee Surplus
▪Early retirement incentives, layoffs, and not filling vacated
positions can all reduce an employer’s headcount, but with a
cost.
▪ Early retirement programs can result in the most skilled and productive
employees leaving the organization.
▪ Layoffs can damage workforce morale and hurt the firm’s reputation as an
employer.
▪ Not filling open positions can leave key positions in the organization vacant
or understaffed.
▪Action plans to address a persistent employee surplus may also
involve reassignments, hiring freezes, and steering employees
away from careers in that position to reduce the need for future
layoffs.
▪Retraining employees to fill other jobs in the firm can help bring
labor supply and demand into balance.
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Staffing Planning
The three questions that need to be
answered are:
1. How many people should we recruit?
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Staffing yields: the proportion of applicants moving from one
stage of the hiring process to the next
Hiring yields: the percent of applicants ultimately hired (also
called selection ratios)
2. What resources do we need?
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Workload-driven forecasting: based on historical data on the
average number of hires typically made per recruiter
Staffing efficiency driven forecasting: the total cost associated
with the compensation of the newly hired employee
3. How much time will it take to hire?
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Continuous recruiting can shorten the hiring timeline
Batch recruiting: recruiting a new applicant pool each time
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Staffing Yields
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Hiring Timeline
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External Cost Per Hire
External cost per hire: six basic elements account
for 90% of the costs to hire to calculate the cost of
external hiring:
1.Advertising expenses
2.Agency and search firm fees
3.Employee referral bonuses
4.Recruiter and applicant travel costs
5.Relocation costs
6.Company recruiter costs (prorated salary and benefits if
the recruiter performs duties other than staffing)
▪ Saratoga Institute adds an additional 10% to cover miscellaneous
expenses including testing, reference checking, hiring manager
time, and administrative support.
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Internal Cost Per Hire
Internal cost per hire includes four
elements:
1.Internal advertising costs
2.Travel and interview costs
3.Relocation costs
4.Internal recruiter costs
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Discussion Questions
▪If forecasting is rarely exact, why should a firm bother
doing it?
▪What labor force trends might influence a firm’s staffing
planning, in your opinion?
▪How can contingent employees help an organization
prepare for anticipated surpluses or shortages of
workers?
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Discussion Questions
If your boss asked you how investing more resources
in forecasting and planning could help the
organization compete better, what would you say?
What would happen if a firm did not engage in
staffing planning?
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Opening Vignette Exercise
The opening vignette describes the workforce planning process at
Black Hills Corporation. One of the biggest planning challenges the
company identified was retaining its experienced employees,
particularly for its highly specialized skill needs that are difficult to
find and for technical positions in which it takes longer for new
hires to become productive. Because experienced employees are
critical to Black Hills’ ability to operate efficiently, it must retain as
many workers as it can, and also ensure that their knowledge is
transferred completely to new employees. The company’s growth
strategy also means that its need for employees is increasing.
Working in a group of three to five students, develop action plans
for Black Hills to both retain its existing employees and ensure the
complete transfer of knowledge to its new hires. Be prepared to
share your ideas with the class.
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Chern’s Case Assignment
a) Conduct a transition analysis.
b) Summarize the internal labor market and highlight any trends
or forecasted gaps.
c) Based on the transition probability matrix, calculate how
many new full-time sales associates should be hired
externally.
d) Calculate the number of applicants needed to acquire the
number of new hires you forecasted.
e) Use multiple sources of data to describe the current and
future labor market for retail salespeople. If you forecast a
gap, determine whether the gap is temporary or permanent.
Make some recommendations to address the gap.
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Chapter 5 – Forecasting
and Planning
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Learning Objectives
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After studying this chapter, you
should be able to:
Describe the workforce planning process.
Discuss how an organization can predict its future
business activity.
Describe how an organization can forecast its
demand for workers.
Explain how to forecast the likely supply of available
workers from inside and outside the firm.
Discuss how to develop action plans to address gaps
between labor supply and labor demand.
Describe the staffing planning process.
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Workforce Planning
▪The availability of the talent needed to execute a desired
business strategy will be an influence whether or not that
strategy is ultimately successful.
▪Workforce planning: the process of predicting an
organization’s future employment needs and the availability
of current employees and external hires to meet those
employment needs and execute the organization’s business
strategy.
▪Workforce planning is the foundation of strategic staffing
because it identifies and addresses future challenges to a
firm’s ability to get the right talent in place at the right time
to execute its business strategy.
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Workforce Planning Process
1.
Identify the business strategy.
2.
Articulate the firm’s talent philosophy and strategic staffing
decisions.
3.
Conduct a workforce analysis.
4.
5.
Develop and implement action plans. Develop action plans to
address any gaps between labor demand and labor supply
forecasts.
• The action plans should be consistent with the firm’s talent
philosophy, and can include recruiting, retention, compensation,
succession management, and training and development.
• Action plans can be short-term or long-term, depending on the
firm’s needs and the predictability of the environment.
Monitor, evaluate, and revise the forecasts and action plans. As the
environment changes, forecasts and action plans may need to
change as well.
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Workforce Planning Process, cont.
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Forecasting
▪Given the uncertainty of forecasts, construct
estimates as a range, providing low, probable, and
high estimates.
▪Recalculate estimates as changes happen in the
organization’s internal and external environments
and as the firm’s assumptions and expectations
change.
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Forecasting Business Activity
An organization’s product demand directly affects
its need for labor
Locate reliable, high-quality information sources
within and outside of the organization to forecast
business activity
Types of business activity forecasts:
▪ Seasonal
▪ Interest rate
▪ Currency exchange
▪ Competitors
▪ Industry and economic
▪ Others
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Forecasting Labor Demand
It is a good idea to identify minimal as well as optimal
staffing levels when analyzing labor demand.
An organization’s demand for labor depends on its
forecasted business activity and its business needs, which
depend on its business strategy.
Business needs can include things like:
▪ Achieving the staffing levels necessary for generating a
given amount of revenue within a particular period of
time (e.g., salesperson staffing levels necessary to
generate $5 million of revenue within 6 months)
▪ Increasing staffing levels to execute a growth strategy
▪ Decreasing staffing levels during a restructuring
▪ Obtaining the new talents needed to create new products
or provide different services
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Ratio Analysis
Assumes that there is a relatively fixed ratio
between the number of employees needed and
certain business metrics.
▪ Using historical patterns within the firm helps to establish
a reasonable range for these ratios.
▪ This process can be used for either justifying new
positions or demonstrating the need for layoffs.
Need consistent historical trends to calculate ratios.
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Possible Ratios
▪Production to employees
▪Revenue per employee
▪Managers to employees
▪Inventory levels to employees
▪Number of customers or customer orders to
employees
▪Labor costs to all production costs
▪The percent utilization of production capacity to
employees
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Scatter Plots
Show graphically how two different variables (e.g.,
revenue and staffing levels) are related.
If an area has a
population of
44,000 then 8
ambulance drivers
would be
predicted to be
needed
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Trend Analysis
▪Uses past employment patterns to predict future needs.
▪ For example, if a company has been growing five percent annually for the
last eight years, it might assume that it will experience the same five
percent annual growth for the next few years.
▪Any employment trends that are likely to continue can be useful
in forecasting labor demand.
▪Because so many factors can also affect staffing needs, including
competition, the economic environment, and changes in how the
company gets its work done (e.g., automation might improve
productivity), trend analysis is rarely used by itself in making
labor demand forecasts.
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Trend Analysis
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Judgmental Forecasting
▪Relies on the experience and insights of people in the organization to
predict future needs.
▪Top-down: organizational leaders rely on their experience and
knowledge of their industry and company to make predictions about
what future staffing levels will need to be. Top managers’ estimates
then become staffing goals for the lower levels in the organization.
▪ In some cases, particularly when companies are facing financial
difficulties or restructuring, budgets may determine these headcount
numbers.
▪Bottom-up: uses the input of lower-level managers in estimating
staffing requirements. Based on supervisors’ understanding of the
business strategy, each level provides an estimate of their staffing needs
to execute the strategy. The estimates are consolidated and modified as
they move up the organization’s hierarchy until top management
formalizes the company’s estimate of its future staffing needs into
staffing goals.
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The Role of Judgment
▪Because historical trends and relationships can
change, it is usually best to supplement the more
mechanical ratio, scatter plot, and trend forecasting
methods with managerial judgment.
▪The more mechanical methods can be used as a
starting point and managerial input then used to
modify the estimates.
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Return on Investment Analysis
▪Estimate the return on investment from adding a new position based on the
costs and outcomes resulting from that new hire.
▪First assign dollar values to the benefits you expect from a new hire for the
period of time most appropriate for the position and your organization.
▪ How much revenue during the period will be directly generated as a result of this
position?
▪ How much money per period will this position save your organization in terms of
increased efficiency, and how much value will it add in greater productivity, quality,
or customer service?
▪Then compare this amount with the cost of adding the new hire.
▪ Compute the cost of hiring, including advertising the position, interviewing,
screening, travel, relocation, and training expenses.
▪ Add this to the compensation for the new position during the time period to get
your initial investment.
▪Compare this amount with the value your company will gain to determine the
return on the investment of adding the new position.
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Forecasting Labor Supply
▪Combining current staffing levels with anticipated
staffing gains and losses results in an estimate of the
supply of labor for the target position at a certain point
in the future.
▪ Anticipated gains and losses can be based on historical data
combined with managerial estimates of future changes.
▪The external labor market consists of people who do
not currently work for a firm.
▪A firm’s internal labor market consists of the firm’s
current employees.
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Forecasting the Internal
Labor Market
Estimate the competency levels and number of employees
likely to be working for the company at the end of the
forecasting period.
To forecast internal talent resources for a position, subtract
anticipated losses from the number of employees in the target
position at the beginning of the forecasting period.
▪ Losses may be due to promotions, demotions, transfers,
retirements, resignations, etc. When workers are harder to find,
more employees than usual may leave the organization to pursue
other opportunities than leave during looser labor markets when
jobs are less plentiful.
▪ Anticipated gains from transfers, promotions, and demotions are
then added to the internal labor supply forecast.
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Transition Analysis
▪A quantitative technique used to analyze internal labor
markets and forecast internal labor supply.
▪A simple but often effective technique for analyzing an
organization’s internal labor market, which can be useful in
answering recruits’ questions about promotion paths and
the likelihood of promotions as well as in workforce
planning.
▪Can also forecast the number of people who currently work
for the organization likely to still be employed in various
positions at some point in the future.
▪The analysis is best performed for a limited number of jobs
at a time to keep it easily interpretable.
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Transition Analysis Process
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Transition Analysis
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Using the Transition Probability Matrix
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Internal Labor Market
Forecasting Methods
▪Judgment
▪Talent inventories: summarize each employee’s skills, competencies, and
qualifications
▪Replacement charts: visually shows each of the possible successors for a job
and summarizes their present performance, promotion readiness, and
development needs
▪Employee surveys to identify the potential for increased turnover in the future
▪Labor supply chain management: The basic foundation of any supply chain
model is to have the right product, in the right volume, in the right place, at
the right time, with the right quality
◦ Businesses use multiple suppliers so that they can quickly change and scale to meet
changing business needs.
◦ Supply chain management principles of inventory management, planning, and
optimization can be easily applied to people.
◦ Software and services allow companies to match employees' expertise and
knowledge to business needs and deploy the right people just as assets would be
deployed in a supply chain.
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Replacement Chart
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Forecasting the External
Labor Market
Organizations monitor the external labor market in
two ways.
◦ The first is through their own observations and
experiences. For example, are the quality and
quantity of applicants responding to job
announcements improving or getting worse?
◦ The second way is by monitoring labor market
statistics generated by others.
◦ U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and others
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Resolving Labor
Supply/Demand Gaps
▪Action plans proactively address an anticipated
surplus or shortage of employees.
▪Whether a shortage or surplus of applicants is the
result of temporary factors or whether it reflects a
trend that is likely to continue, is an important
factor to understand, because different staffing
strategies are appropriate for each.
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Temporary Talent Shortage
▪Because higher salaries cost the organization more money throughout
the new hire’s tenure with the company, hiring inducements that last
only as long as the talent shortage does are often better.
▪Companies often turn to more expensive recruiting methods such as
search firms, or lower their hiring standards so that more recruits are
considered qualified.
▪ Neither of these strategies is guaranteed to work
▪ More expensive recruiting methods may quickly drain a recruiting
budget without resulting in an acceptable hire
▪ Lowering hiring standards decreases the quality of the company’s
workforce, which may not be acceptable
▪Options include offering hiring incentives such as sign-on bonuses and
retention bonuses such as stock options or cash to be paid after the
employee has successfully worked with the company for a certain
period of time.
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Persistent Talent Shortage
If it is likely that a worker shortage will last a
number of years, an organization must:
◦ Reduce its demand for the talents that will be in
short supply
◦ By increasing their use of automation and technology,
and by redesigning jobs so that fewer people with the
desired talent are needed.
◦ And/or increase the supply of the qualifications it
needs
◦ This is not a fast or practical solution for most
organizations.
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Temporary Employee Surplus
▪If slowdowns are cyclical or happen frequently, using
temporary or contingent workers who are the first to be let
go when business slows can help to provide a buffer around
key permanent workers.
▪Temporary layoffs may need to last more than six months to
be cost-effective due to severance costs, greater
unemployment insurance premiums, temporary
productivity declines, and the rehiring and retraining
process.
▪ Losing the investments the organization has already made
in hiring and training the laid off workers can also be
costly.
▪Alternatives to layoffs include across-the-board salary cuts
or a reduction in work hours, or reallocating workers to
expand other areas of the business.
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Permanent Employee Surplus
▪Early retirement incentives, layoffs, and not filling vacated
positions can all reduce an employer’s headcount, but with a
cost.
▪ Early retirement programs can result in the most skilled and productive
employees leaving the organization.
▪ Layoffs can damage workforce morale and hurt the firm’s reputation as an
employer.
▪ Not filling open positions can leave key positions in the organization vacant
or understaffed.
▪Action plans to address a persistent employee surplus may also
involve reassignments, hiring freezes, and steering employees
away from careers in that position to reduce the need for future
layoffs.
▪Retraining employees to fill other jobs in the firm can help bring
labor supply and demand into balance.
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Staffing Planning
The three questions that need to be
answered are:
1. How many people should we recruit?
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Staffing yields: the proportion of applicants moving from one
stage of the hiring process to the next
Hiring yields: the percent of applicants ultimately hired (also
called selection ratios)
2. What resources do we need?
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Workload-driven forecasting: based on historical data on the
average number of hires typically made per recruiter
Staffing efficiency driven forecasting: the total cost associated
with the compensation of the newly hired employee
3. How much time will it take to hire?
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Continuous recruiting can shorten the hiring timeline
Batch recruiting: recruiting a new applicant pool each time
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Staffing Yields
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Hiring Timeline
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External Cost Per Hire
External cost per hire: six basic elements account
for 90% of the costs to hire to calculate the cost of
external hiring:
1.Advertising expenses
2.Agency and search firm fees
3.Employee referral bonuses
4.Recruiter and applicant travel costs
5.Relocation costs
6.Company recruiter costs (prorated salary and benefits if
the recruiter performs duties other than staffing)
▪ Saratoga Institute adds an additional 10% to cover miscellaneous
expenses including testing, reference checking, hiring manager
time, and administrative support.
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Internal Cost Per Hire
Internal cost per hire includes four
elements:
1.Internal advertising costs
2.Travel and interview costs
3.Relocation costs
4.Internal recruiter costs
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Discussion Questions
▪If forecasting is rarely exact, why should a firm bother
doing it?
▪What labor force trends might influence a firm’s staffing
planning, in your opinion?
▪How can contingent employees help an organization
prepare for anticipated surpluses or shortages of
workers?
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Discussion Questions
If your boss asked you how investing more resources
in forecasting and planning could help the
organization compete better, what would you say?
What would happen if a firm did not engage in
staffing planning?
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Opening Vignette Exercise
The opening vignette describes the workforce planning process at
Black Hills Corporation. One of the biggest planning challenges the
company identified was retaining its experienced employees,
particularly for its highly specialized skill needs that are difficult to
find and for technical positions in which it takes longer for new
hires to become productive. Because experienced employees are
critical to Black Hills’ ability to operate efficiently, it must retain as
many workers as it can, and also ensure that their knowledge is
transferred completely to new employees. The company’s growth
strategy also means that its need for employees is increasing.
Working in a group of three to five students, develop action plans
for Black Hills to both retain its existing employees and ensure the
complete transfer of knowledge to its new hires. Be prepared to
share your ideas with the class.
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Chern’s Case Assignment
a) Conduct a transition analysis.
b) Summarize the internal labor market and highlight any trends
or forecasted gaps.
c) Based on the transition probability matrix, calculate how
many new full-time sales associates should be hired
externally.
d) Calculate the number of applicants needed to acquire the
number of new hires you forecasted.
e) Use multiple sources of data to describe the current and
future labor market for retail salespeople. If you forecast a
gap, determine whether the gap is temporary or permanent.
Make some recommendations to address the gap.
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Chapter 4 – Strategic Job
Analysis and Competency
Modeling
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Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able
to:
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Explain why job analysis can be strategic.
Describe different types of job analyses, and what
they are used for.
Define “job description” and “person specification”
and describe how they are used.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of
different job analysis methods.
Describe how to plan a job analysis.
Describe how to conduct a job analysis.
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Job Analysis
Definition: a systematic process of identifying and
describing the important aspects of a job and the
characteristics workers need to perform the job well
Job analyses are used for multiple purposes, including:
▪ Determining job entry requirements
▪ Developing a company’s strategic recruiting plan
▪ Selecting individuals for employment
▪ Developing employee training plans
▪ Designing compensation systems
▪ Developing performance evaluation measures
Job analyses also help group jobs into job families or
groupings of jobs that either call for similar worker
characteristics or contain parallel work tasks
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Job Families
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Job Analysis for Staffing
A job analysis that produces a valid selection system
identifies worker characteristics that:
▪ Distinguish superior from average and unacceptable workers;
▪ Are not easily learned on the job; and
▪ Exist to at least a moderate extent in the applicant pool.
Future-oriented job analysis: job analysis technique for
analyzing new jobs or analyzing how jobs will look in the
future
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Job-Worker Match
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Legal Requirements
To meet legal requirements, a job analysis must:
▪ Be valid and identify the worker knowledge, skills,
abilities, and other characteristics necessary to perform
the job and differentiate superior from barely acceptable
workers
▪ Be in writing and relevant to the particular job in question
▪ Be derived from multiple sources
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Practical Reasons to do a
Job Analysis
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Job Description
A written description of the duties and responsibilities
associated with the job itself.
Job descriptions usually include:
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The size and type of organization
The department and job title
The salary range
Position grade or level
To whom the employee reports and for whom the employee is responsible
Brief summary of the main duties and responsibilities of the job
Brief summary of the occasional duties and responsibilities of the job
Any special equipment used on the job
Any special working conditions (e.g. shift or weekend work, foreign travel,
etc.)
▪ Purpose and frequency of contact with others
▪ The statement, “Other duties as assigned” to accommodate job changes and
special projects
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Person Specification
▪Person specification: summarizes the
characteristics of someone able to perform the job
well
▪Essential criteria: job candidate characteristics that
are critical to adequate performance of a new hire
▪Desirable criteria: job candidate criteria that may
enhance the new hire’s job success, but that are
not essential to adequate job performance
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Outcomes of Job Analysis
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Job Analysis Methods
Must be:
▪ Reliable, or replicable
◦ A reliable job analysis procedure will produce the same
results when it 1) is applied to the same job by a
different job specialist; 2) when a different group of job
experts is used; and 3) when it is done at a different
time.
▪ Valid, or accurately measure what it was intended to
measure
◦ A valid job analysis accurately captures the target job.
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Job Analysis Techniques
▪Critical incidents technique: identifies behaviors extremely
effective or extremely ineffective behaviors by documenting
critical incidents that have occurred on the job
▪Job elements method: uses expert brainstorming sessions to
identify the characteristics of successful workers
▪Structured interview technique: subject matter experts provide
information about the job verbally in structured interviews
▪Task inventory approach: job experts generate a list of 50-200
tasks that are grouped in categories reflecting major work
functions that are then evaluated on dimensions relevant for
selection
▪Structured Questionnaires: involves using a list of preplanned
questions designed to analyze a job (e.g., the Position Analysis
Questionnaire or PAQ)
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Planning Job Analyses
Job analyses should be performed in such a way as
to meet the professional and legal guidelines that
have been published in the Uniform Guidelines on
Employee Selection Procedures
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Planning Job Analyses
▪Determine time and resources necessary and
available
▪Collect background information about the company,
its culture and business strategy, the job, and the
job’s contribution to strategy execution and
competitive advantage
▪O*NET - Occupational Information Network
(http://online.onetcenter.org/)
▪Identify job experts
▪Identify appropriate job analysis technique(s) to use
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Job Analysis Steps
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Task Statements
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Job Duties
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Weighting Job Duties
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Job Requirements Matrix
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Competency Modeling
▪Definition: a job analysis method that identifies the
necessary worker competencies for high performance
▪Competencies: more broadly defined components of a
successful worker’s repertoire of behavior needed to do a
job well
▪Because competencies are linked to the organization’s
business goals, strategy, and values, a person specification
resulting from a job description can enhance hiring quality
and strategy execution
▪A competency-based job description:
▪ Enhances a manager’s flexibility in assigning work
▪ Lengthens the life of a job description
▪ Can allow firms to group jobs requiring similar competencies under a
single job description
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Competencies Related to Specific Job
Environments
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Job Rewards Analysis
Job rewards analysis: identifies the intrinsic and
extrinsic rewards of a job
▪ Analyzes the intrinsic rewards that are non-monetary and
derived from the work itself and the firm’s culture
◦ Including the satisfaction of meeting personal goals, great coworkers,
continuous learning, and doing meaningful work.
▪ Analyzes the extrinsic rewards that have monetary value
◦ Including base pay, bonuses, and benefits.
The combination of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
are a job’s total rewards
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Job Rewards Analysis, cont.
Employee value proposition (EVP): the intrinsic and
extrinsic rewards an employee receives by working
for a particular employer in return for their job
performance
Communicating your EVP:
▪ First determine exactly what attracts job candidates, and
why employees enjoy their work.
▪ Then craft a message to clearly state what makes your
company the obvious choice over the competition.
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3 Criteria for Employee
Value Propositions
1. Magnitude refers to a reward package that is neither too
small nor too large in economic terms.
• Spending too much on rewards can negatively impact the firm’s
financial stability, and hurt investor relations.
2. Mix refers to the composition of the reward package
matching the needs and preferences of applicants or
employees.
• Offering stock options that vest in five years to a young, mobile
workforce, or free daycare to an older workforce is not
consistent with workers’ needs and preferences.
3. Distinctiveness refers to the uniqueness of the total
reward package.
• Rewards with no special appeal and that do not set the
organization apart as distinctive do not present a compelling
value proposition.
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Job Reward Dimensions
Amount refers to how much of it is received.
▪ how much pay, what level of task variety
Differential is how consistent the reward is across different
employees.
▪ all employees receive the same number of vacation days, but
merit bonuses range from 2% to 15% of base pay
Stability is how reliable the reward is.
◦ Is the reward the same all of the time, or does it change (e.g.,
does it vary based on organizational performance or business
requirements?)
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Job Rewards Matrix
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Job Rewards Matrix, cont.
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Discussion Questions
Why do you think some organizations choose to
not perform job analyses given their benefits?
What could be done to increase their
willingness to analyze jobs?
How can job analysis make staffing more
strategic?
How do you personally evaluate different job
opportunities and decide which to pursue?
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Discussion Questions
If supervisors and job incumbents disagreed about the
relative importance and weights of various job duties, how
would you reconcile their conflicting opinions? For example,
if a supervisor emphasized the technical aspects of a
customer service representative’s job and the representatives
emphasized the interpersonal aspects of listening to
customers and understanding their problems, what would
you do?
Some jobs change so rapidly that companies do not feel
doing a job analysis is worthwhile because by the time one is
done, it’s already outdated. What advice would you give such
a company to help them take advantage of the benefits a job
analysis has to offer without wasting unnecessary time and
resources doing a traditional job analysis?
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Develop Your Skills Exercise
▪Working in a group of 3-4 people, do a job rewards
analysis on the job one of your group members
holds (or has held). Use the questionnaire in this
chapter’s Develop Your Skills feature as part of your
analysis.
▪Summarize your analysis in a job rewards matrix.
▪Then apply the results and describe the type of
potential job applicant to which each reward might
appeal.
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Opening Vignette Exercise
The opening vignette describes MITRE’s effort to develop a
competency model for its sytems engineers. As explained in
the vignette, systems engineering is a broad discipline
requiring a variety of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other
characteristics. Performing a job analysis or developing a
competency model for this type of job requires using
different methods than would doing the same for a more
static, lower-skilled job such as a cashier or mail sorter.
Your assignment for this exercise is to describe how you
would conduct a job analysis or create a competency model
differently for these two types of jobs. How would the
process differ? Would you use different sources of
information?
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Chern’s Case Study
a)
Using O*Net and other sources of data,
create a job requirements matrix.
b)
For each competency or KSAO, decide if it
should be used to hire or plan to develop.
c)
Estimate how important each characteristic
is relative to the others as well as the
relative time spent on each job duty.
d)
Create a job rewards matrix.
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