1st Edition
Functional Job Analysis A Foundation for Human Resources Management
324 Pages
by
Psychology Press
324 Pages
by
Psychology Press
324 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This book was written to address the need for timely, thorough, practical, and defensible job analysis for HR managers. Under continuing development over the past 50 years, Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is acknowledged by major texts in HR and industrial/organizational psychology as one of the premier methods of job analysis used by leading-edge organizations in the private and public sectors. It... Read more
Contents: E.A. Fleishman, Series Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Learning and Understanding the FJA Model. The Work-Doing System. The Work Organization. The Worker. The Work. Reducing Friction in the Work-Doing System. Part II: Generating the FJA Data. Generating Task Data With Workers: The FJA Focus Group. Consulting With Management to Introduce FJA Into the Work-Doing System. The Use of FJA in TQM. Part III: Using FJA in HRM Applications. Recruitment--Attracting a Workforce. Selection--Testing Applicants. Selection--Interviewing Applicants. Training--Improving Worker Skill. Performance Appraisal--Acknowledging Worker Contributions. Career Development and Coaching--Encouraging Worker Growth. Pay--Rewarding Worker Performance and Growth. Job Design--Building Better Work. FJA and the Law--Meeting the Legal Test. Appendices: FJA Scales. Selecting Functional Job Analysts. Training and Accrediting Functional Job Analysts. FJA Task Bank Editing Manual.
Biography
Sidney A. Fine, Steven F. Cronshaw
"It is this juxtaposition of technical descriptions of job analysis along with commentary on the current state of organizations and their relationship with their workers that makes this an intriguing book."
—Contemporary Psychology
