10 Job examination Methods

Job examination is a course of action for collecting information that describes in detail the criteria for successful job performance.

Typically, it focuses on responsibilities, responsibilities, knowledge and skill requirements, and any other abilities for successful job performance.

These are top 10 methods of job examination as follows:

1. Job component method

This method is same the basic incident technique. It focuses on work behaviors and the results of this behavior instead of more recondite characteristics. Job component method developed by Ernest Primoff.

2. Checklists and rating scales

Checklist is job examination method base on an inventory of job elements. You can ask question about purose of position; meaningful responsibility areas; organization; relationships; decision making; authority; Skills, knowledge, experience; working conditions.

3. Competency profiling

Competency modeling is the activity of calculating the specific competencies that are characteristic of high performance and success in a given job. Contents of competency modeling include skills, knowledge, abilities, values, interests, personalities.

4. Direct observation

Direct Observation is a method to observe and record behavior / events / activities / responsibilities / duties while something is happening.

5. Work methods examination

Work methods examination is used to describe manual and repetitive production jobs, such as factory or assembly-line jobs. Work methods examination includes time and motion study and micro-motion examination.

6. basic incident technique

basic incident technique is a method used to clarify work behaviors that classify in good and poor performance.

7. Position examination Questionnaire

PAQ form is a questionnaire technique. It developed by McCormick, Jeanneret, and Mecham (1972), is a structured instrument of job examination to measure job characteristics and relate them to human characteristics. It consists of 195 job elements that describe generic human work behaviors.

8. Functional job examination

FJA form is a technique that was developed by the Employment and Training Administration of the United States Department of Labor. It includes 7 scales (numbers) that measure: 3 worker-function scales: measure % of time spent with: data, people, things; 1 worker-instruction extent; 3 scales that measure reasoning, mathematics, language.

9. Work Profiling System

WPS form is a questionnaire technique of job examination, is a computer-administered system for job examination, developed by Saville & Holdsworth, Ltd.

10. Task Inventory

A task inventory is a list of the discrete activities that make up a specific job in a specific organization