Only about half of HR professionals practice the science of job analysis—reducing a job to its elemental parts and identifying the skills and knowledge required to do it.
That's the implication that could be drawn from a survey released by the Society for Human Resource Management that queried 459 HR professionals about their familiarity with and use of job analysis to infuse their department's performance.
The survey revealed that a little more than half of those surveyed (51 percent) had participated in at least one formal job analysis activity. Less than half (45 percent) said they've used the information obtained from job analysis for some function other than identifying the skills and knowledge required to perform a certain job. Only 20 percent said they'd conducted a job analysis while working for their employer.
Complete your profile to continue reading and get FREE access to BenefitsPRO, part of your ALM digital membership.
Your access to unlimited BenefitsPRO content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:
- Breaking benefits news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
