Selecting a Company and Planning a New Position - Job Analysis and Job Description

You will be selecting a company which you will work with throughout the duration of this portfolio. It is critical that you can find a substantial amount of information regarding the company to be successful throughout the portfolio. Your instructor will provide you with further details. The position you are designing in part 1B will be used throughout the rest of the portfolio.

Purpose:

The job description is the key to many functions within human resources. How the job description is written will influence recruitment, selection, performance management, training and development, health and safety, and compensation.

The purpose of this assignment is to give you practice conducting a job analysis, designing the job, and creating the job specifications and performance standards for a specific job or position. The final output for this assignment is a fully developed job description.

The company president and operations manager are working with an external HR consultant (you) to conduct a job analysis for a new sales and marketing manager within your selected company.

Research and find a minimum of 4 sources. 2 marketing manager job descriptions and 2 sales manager job descriptions. Be sure they are within your industry or a similar industry. Use elements from all 4 and information about your company to complete the process below. Conduct a job analysis, design the job, develop a job description and develop job specifications for the position. It is important to note that this is a complex and senior position and requires skills and knowledge at the appropriate level.

The assignment includes the following five components:

1. Job Analysis– the process of obtaining information about the job by determining what the duties, tasks or activities of the job entail and the necessary skills, knowledge, training and ability to perform the work successfully. To complete this, you will need to answer the 7 questions outlined in the textbook for each element (Marketing Manager and Sales Manager) of the new job you are designing. You will use the information you gather answering these questions to complete the rest of the steps below.
   
   
2. Job Design– the process of defining and arranging tasks, roles and other processes to achieve employee goals and organizational effectiveness. Use the relevant information you collected from the job analysis and organize the tasks for the new sales and marketing manager role into groups. Connect those tasks to the goals of the position and to the goals of the company. This can be presented in a chart format if need be.
   
   
3. Job Specification– a statement of the needed knowledge, skills and abilities of the person who is to perform in the position. This should be taken from the job analysis. Select the most important and relevant information to create this job specifications section for the new sales and marketing manager position.
   
   
4. Performance Standards– a list of the expected results of the job. These should be specific and measurable. They will be used for the annual performance evaluation.
   
   
5. Job Description– a description of the types of tasks, duties, responsibilities, skills, knowledge, abilities and competencies (job specifications) needed to successfully perform the work. You should take the information from all the elements above and create a final job description. This will be used for all the other HR processes within the company.

The final output will be a job description for the role.

Additional resources: www.job-analysis.net and http://alis.alberta.ca, National Occupation Classification (NOC) and the textbook.

Address each of the first four components. This information will be pulled from your analysis work.  The final written job description (maximum one page) must also be included. The total assignment can be between 15-30pages depending on the analysis that you complete.  Please include a cover page and a reference page.