Job Design Vs. Job Analysis

Job Design

As per Lepak, and Gowan (2010), Job Design involves determining the task and responsibilities that employees in a particular job are expected to perform as well how they need to interact with their co-workers to realize those contribution.

“In the domain of organizational design, an important issue regarding human resource management is job design as a process of systematically organizing work into tasks” ( Fabac, Pazur, & Jugovic (2012),p.1). Job design identifies what work will be performed, how it will be performed, and who will perform it. A well design job leads the organization achieve its strategic goals with employee satisfaction.

Job Analysis

As per Lepak, and Gowan (2010, Job Analysis is the process of systematically indentifying the task, duties, and responsibilities expected to perform in a single job as well as the competencies-the knowledge, skills, and abilities- employees must possess to be successful in the job.Job Analysis is the fundamental activity of Human Resource Management. It is used to efficiently hire, train, appraise, compensate, or use its human resources. Oswald (2003) stats in the book review that “as the authors’ state, "The more you know about the interface between methods and applications, the better you will be able to avoid potential pitfalls [in job analysis]" (p. 187)” (p.3).

Job Design vs. Job Analysis

Job Design and Job Analysis are very closely related to each other. Job design focuses on task and responsibilities of the employee that optimize their skills while job analysis focuses on Job Description and Job specifications. The purpose of both is to create the best job as per company requirement where employee’s skills can be fully utilized to fulfill that job.

Job design includes creating a job by arranging tasks efficiently, by taking consideration the goals of organization, company performance, while Job Analysis includes evaluation/analysis of jobs, in terms of tasks, responsibilities, skills, knowledge and abilities and can be used as input of Job Design.

Importance of Job Analysis and Job Design

It is very important for managers to understand the concept of Job Design and Job analysis as it is important for any organization growth that jobs are being done correctly.

Different training programs, job evaluation, compensation planning, performance appraisals, all depends on a complete job analysis and design. Better the understanding of both the concepts, managers will be able to manage and create better jobs with the required competencies and right profile which ultimately enable them to achieve company goals. This also helps manager to understand employee concerns, and safety, while designing jobs, as well as to make important decision about recruitment, evaluation and