While keeping in your mind the case of Daimler Alabama, define job analysis and also mention job description, specification, and evaluation?

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IMPROVING PERFORMANCE: THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT Daimler Alabama By 2020, Daimler intends to use its expanded Tuscaloosa, Alabama factory complex to start building hybrid and (eventually) electric SUVS.64 That's a step it could take because its original factory there, which came on line about 20 years before, has been so successful. In planning its original Alabama Mercedes-Benz factory, Germany-based Daimler's strategy was to design a high-tech factory.65 The plant emphasizes just-in-time inventory methods, so inventories stay negligible due to the arrival "just in time" of parts. It also organizes employees into work teams, and emphasizes that all employees must dedicate themselves to continuous improvement (seeking continuously to find better ways to do things). Such a production strategy requires certain employee competencies (skills and behaviors). For example, it requires multiskilled and flexible employees who are eager to work cooperatively in teams. Competency-based job analysis played an important role in this factory. Guidelines here regarding whom to hire and how to train them are based more on the competencies someone needs to do the job (such as "ability to work cooperatively on a team") than on lists of job duties. Because employees don't have to follow detailed job descriptions showing what "my job" is, it's easier for employees to move from job to job within their teams. Not being pigeonholed also encourages workers to look beyond their own jobs to find ways to improve things. For instance, one team found a $0.23 plastic prong that worked better than the one for $2.50 the plant was using to keep car doors open during painting. Building its modern "continuous improvement" plant meant 3 Daimler needed employees who thought for themselves. Organizing its jobs around worker competencies and using competency-based job analysis helped Daimler achieve its strategic aims here. IMPROVING PERFORMANCE: THE STRATEGIC CONTEXT Daimler Alabama By 2020, Daimler intends to use its expanded Tuscaloosa, Alabama factory complex to start building hybrid and (eventually) electric SUVS.64 That's a step it could take because its original factory there, which came on line about 20 years before, has been so successful. In planning its original Alabama Mercedes-Benz factory, Germany-based Daimler's strategy was to design a high-tech factory.65 The plant emphasizes just-in-time inventory methods, so inventories stay negligible due to the arrival "just in time" of parts. It also organizes employees into work teams, and emphasizes that all employees must dedicate themselves to continuous improvement (seeking continuously to find better ways to do things). Such a production strategy requires certain employee competencies (skills and behaviors). For example, it requires multiskilled and flexible employees who are eager to work cooperatively in teams. Competency-based job analysis played an important role in this factory. Guidelines here regarding whom to hire and how to train them are based more on the competencies someone needs to do the job (such as "ability to work cooperatively on a team") than on lists of job duties. Because employees don't have to follow detailed job descriptions showing what "my job" is, it's easier for employees to move from job to job within their teams. Not being pigeonholed also encourages workers to look beyond their own jobs to find ways to improve things. For instance, one team found a $0.23 plastic prong that worked better than the one for $2.50 the plant was using to keep car doors open during painting. Building its modern "continuous improvement" plant meant 3 Daimler needed employees who thought for themselves. Organizing its jobs around worker competencies and using competency-based job analysis helped Daimler achieve its strategic aims here.

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