Chapter 4

Functional Job Analysis

A job analysis approach that utilizes an inventory of the various types of work activities that can constitute any job.

Critical Incident Method

A job anlysis method by which important job tasks are identified for job success.

Job Description

A statement of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job to be performed.

Virtual Team

A team that utilizes telecommunication technology to link team members who are geographically dispersed often worldwide across cultures and actoss time zones.

Job Enrichment

Enhancing a job by adding more meaningful tasks and duties to make the work more rewarding or satisfying.

Flextime

Flexible working hours that permit employees the option of choosing daily starting and quitting times, provided that they work a set number of hours per day or week.

Employee Empowerment

Granting employees power to initiate change, thereby encouraging them to take charge of what they do.

Industrial Engineering

A field of study concerned with analyzing work methonds and establishing time standards.

Job Characteristics Model

A job design theory that puports that three pscholofical states of a jonholder result in improved work performance, internal motivation, and lower absenteeism and turnover.

Job Crafting

A naturally occurring phenomenon whereby employees mold their tasks to fit their individual strengths, passions, and motives better.

Dejobbing

A process of structuring organizations not around jobs but around projects that are constantly changing.

Position Analysis Questionaire

A questionaire identifying approx 200 different tasks that, by means of a five point scale, seeks to determine the degree to which different tasks are involved in performing a job.

Employee Engagement

A situation in which workers are enthusiastic and immersed in their work to the degree that it improves the performance of their companies.

Job Specification

A statement of the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities of a person who is to perfom a job needs.

Task Inventory Analysis

An organization specific list of tasks and their discriptions used as a basis to identify components of jobs.

Job Design

An outgrowth of job analyst that improves jobs through technological and human considerations in order to enhance organization efficiency and employee job satisfaction.

Job Enlargement

The process of adding a greater variety of tasks to a job.

Job Analysis

The process of obtaining information about jobs by determining thier duties, tasks, or activities.

Ergonomics

The process of studying and designing equipment and systems that are easy and efficient for people to use and that ensure their physical well being.

Job Rotation

The process whereby employees rotate in and out of different jobs.