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Steps for Job Analysis

A job analysis is a purposeful, systematic process for collecting information on the important, work-related aspects of a job.  The following are steps to consider as you prepare your reports.

Step 1:  Read chapter 4 & 5.

Step 2:  Select a job (position).  Try to find one you have some interest in, as well as one in which you know someone who currently holds the job.  This job will be also be the focus of the remainder two portions of the Planning Activity.

Step 3:  Choose and apply a job analysis method.  Explain its purpose and your rationale for its use. Discuss its source (i.e., Where did the data come from?).

Step 4:   Acknowledge how this position works with other positions in the work environment (internal & external). Be specific. Provide examples.

Step 5:  Construct a Job Requirements Matrix (See notes on Job Requirements Matrix).  To create this matrix, enough information has to be collected about the job to do the following:

Develop tasks statements (What is done, what is produced, materials used, who is it done for?)

Divide the tasks into dimensions

Rate the importance of the tasks

Identify the KSAO’s

Rate the importance of the KSAO’s

Determine the context  in which the job will be performed

Develop and write a job description for the job including the essential functions of the job

Develop and write the job specifications for the job

The position data can be collected from anywhere you choose.

Create a written report documenting the process you undertook to complete the steps.  I am interested in reading your thought and decision making processes so that I can understand what you did and why.  This report can be no longer than 3 pages (typed, double-spaced).

The actual outputs from the Steps (e.g., the task statements, etc.) should be placed in an Appendix.  Be sure to reference the items in the Appendix in the 3-page report.  The appendix can be any length and may include graphs, charts, and exhibits.

Project Management in Dubai (Assignment)

Building a New Shopping Mall in Dubai

Suggested outline for this assignment (you can change)

  • Budget and Cost Management
  • Preparing cost estimates
  • Project cost baseline
  • Cost Management Plan
  • Project Budget
  • Cost Control
  • Risk Management
  • Project Communication Strategy

Management at Costco and Sam’s Club

Project: find out which business model works best in different respects

Costco: represents the stakeholder theory:

  1. They take their employees seriously and want them to feel good at what they are doing, higher (reasonable) wages, health benefits.
  2. The workers are more productive: innovative, think outside the box, encourage an inspiring environment, make workers feel that their contributions are important.
  3. The employees are more willing to assist customers: they believe in better service. Their success in selling their products depends on their service to customers. When there are more customers Costco hires more employees to help them check out fast. Wall street: more employees mean less revenue for the shareholders.

Sinegal: he has to look at his business in the long term, not from one week to the next. Therefore, the decision to hire more employees was right.

4.The CEO’s status: Sinegal makes $350.000.

Walmart’s CEO makes $35.000.000.

Low salary: Sinegal wants to tell his employees that they are important too. Therefore, a modest salary is a way of paying respect to their work. It is important that they feel that they can connect to the CEO.

Sinegal knows that a higher salary would just mean less revenue as a shareholder.

  1. Their relationship to suppliers. Requirement: do not sell the same product under the price they agreed.
  2. Theft: less shrink, i.e. theft, in Costco: lower cost. They are more loyal because they feel treated in a fair way.
  3. Turn-over rate: this is lower in Costco.
  4. Profits: Costco makes the most profits.

Sam’s Club: represents the shareholder theory

Why does Sam’s Club not learn from Costco?

1.Initially it could be costly. For some time they would make less profit.

2.Ideology is different.

3.CEO: hired for a short time, he does not know when he has to leave his position. Therefore he wants to show good quarters, to show that they are making money.

4.The size of business: there are more Sam’s Club stores than Costco stores.