An Undefined Job One way to see the significance of work design and job analysis is to
Question:
An Undefined Job
One way to see the significance of work design and job analysis is to learn from what happens at companies that fail to define jobs. An anonymous employee of a multimedia company told Entrepreneur magazine’s Scott Gornall about an editor who was given a new job title, “creative manager of content.” Unfortunately, the scope of that job was never specified or explained to others in the company. The new creative manager appointed himself to teach the others how to be more creative. He placed some magazines in a cubicle and called a meeting to announce that, henceforth, that space was the Idea Lab, where employees could go to reflect on ideas. He drew up a flow chart to explain the Idea Lab. He called monthly meetings for idea sharing. His colleagues, unimpressed, felt that he was disturbing their work in order to justify his new responsibilities, whatever they were. Perhaps in principle, a creative manager of content would have met a real need for this publisher, but because the position and it fits with the organization’s objectives were never clearly spelled out, the idea was wasted.
Answer the following questions based on the case above.
(a) Examine the importance for management to prepare a formal job analysis for the preparation for job position like “creative manager”? Appraise their significance for human resource management.
(b) Suggest some important information that are required for the job analysis for the job discussed in the case.
(c) Relate how technological developments can affect human resource management for the career mentioned in the case .
Fundamentals of human resource management
ISBN: 978-0073530468
4th edition
Authors: Raymond A. Noe, John R. Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, Patrick M