Job Analysis

Job Analysis The procedure for determining the duties and skill
requirements of a job and the kind of person who should be
hired for it.
Job Description A list of a job's duties, responsibilities, reporting relationships,
working conditions, and supervisory responsibilities--one
product of a job analysis.
Job Specification A list of a job's "human requirements," that is, the requisite
education, skills, personality, and so on--another product of a
job analysis.
Diary/Log Daily listings made by workers of every activity in which they
engage along with the time each activity takes.
Position Analysis A questionnaire used to collect quantifiable data concerning
the
Questionnaire (PAQ) duties and responsibilities of various jobs.
Department of Labor Standardized method for rating, classifying, and
comparing
Job Analysis virtually every kind of job based on data, people, and things.
Functional Job Analysis A method for classifying jobs similar to the
Department of Labor job analysis but additionally taking into
account the extent to which instructions, reasoning,
judgment, and verbal facility are necessary for performing the
job tasks. (page 97)