Contents of Job Requirements Matrix (Exh. 4.3)

Lecture Notes

The job requirements matrix is very helpful for us to understand job requirements job analysis. What it shows are the key components of job requirements job analysis into some level you can even come to get the process flow that must occur in order to put this all together. First off you need to identify tasks of the job. And we start specific right, so this is sub components of a job, they're not the entire job. So we're going to define specific tasks and then those we can, if we choose, put into task dimensions. So task dimensions would be ways that we go up one level and try to speak beyond tasks and you categorize them together. So you can see here they've given supervision and word processing as task dimensions after they built out specific tasks that kind of fit cleanly under each of these categories. You can then identify the importance of each task dimension using the various methods. And in this case they have given the percentage of time spent and use that as a proxy important to that dimension. You might see on this slide and if you think back to your previous slide, what's going on here with the task is the identification state. We're identifying tasks that make up the job and then we can move forward to infer the knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics of individuals who would perform this job. At this point in further the KSAOs and then we can rate their importance and again there's different ways to do this. So you see the left side of the job requirements matrix is about the job, the work whereas the right side as about the worker or the person ideal for the job. You might take a moment as well to try to recall what's missing from this matrix that is shown in the book. I'll give you second to maybe try to recall that. So what's missing here is the job context. So typically you'd also want to provide the context for the job and that's provided at the bottom of the job requirements matrix in the book. So we talk about where the job is carried out and whether there are any hazards on the job, et. cetera.