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What is a Job?
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A Job is a groupo of related activities and duties. Ideally, the duties of a job should consist of natural unit of work that are similar and related.
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What is a Position?
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A position consists of different duties and responsibilities performed by only one employee. On organization might have opening for 3 positions, doing one job. (3 painters, painting).
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What is a Job Family?
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a Job Family is a group of jobs that have similar duties and responsibilities, and are grouped together for the purposes of recruitment, training, compoensation, and/or advancement opportunities (such as men an infantry in the army hosts a family of jobs).
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What is a Job Specification?
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A job specification is a statement of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the person performing the job.
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What is a Job Description?
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A job description is a statement of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a job.
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What is Job Analysis?
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Job analysis is the process of obtaining information about jobs by determining the duties, tasks, or activities of those jobs. Job Analysis yields an understand of job specifications.
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What are the three broad categorical components of a Function Job Analysis (FJA)
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The three categorical components of a Functional Job Analysis (FJA) are : (1) Data, (2) People, (3) Things.
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What is The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)?
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The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a quantifiable data collection method covering 194 different worker-oriented tasks. Using a five-point scale, the PAQ seeks to determine the degree, if any, to which the different tasks, or job elements, are involved in performing a particular job.
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What is a Task Inventory Analysis?
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It's like the PAQ, but tailored to specific organizations for their internal use. The US Air Force implemented the first Task Inventory Analysis.
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What is Job Design?
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Job Design is an outgrowth of job analysis, and is concerned with structuring jobs in order to improve organization efficiency and employee job satisfaction.
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What is Job Enrichment?
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Job Enrichment is any effort that markes work more rewarding or satisfying by adding more meaningful tasks to an employee's job.
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What is Employee Empowerment?
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Employee Empowerment is a technique of involving employees in their work by process of inclusion, to encourage employees to become innovators and managers of their own work.
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What is an Employee Involvement Group?
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An Employee Involvement Group (EI) (aka a Quality Circle (QC) are principally a means of involving employees in the larger goals of the organization through their suggestions for improved product or service quality, and cutting costs.
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What is an Employee Team?
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An Employee Team is a group of employees working together toward a common purpose, with complementary skills, where members work is mutually dependent.
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What is a Virtual Employee Team?
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A Virtual Employee Team exists when an Employee Team is geogragphically dispersed, often worldwide, brought together by communications technology.
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What is FlexTime?
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Flextime are flexible work hours, allowing employees to choose their start and/or their quit times at work.
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What is telecommuting?
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Working from remote via technologies such as email, instant messaging, etc.
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