What should the goal of the Treadcorps job analysis be? A) Make the o

QUESTION

What should the goal of the Treadcorps job analysis be?

A) Make the overall performance of the Treadcorps system more efficient and profitable.
B) Identify the most inefficient employees and replace them with workers who are more computer literate.
C) Continue to use technological innovations to make Treadcorps more competitive with other auto parts chains.
D) Generate job descriptions and job specifications that more accurately represent what tasks Treadcorps employees are expected to do and what skills they need to do them.
E) Collect data from as many employees as possible about what is good and bad about their workplace experiences.

ANSWER

Answer: D
Explanation: D) The task of the job analyst is to determine the skills, duties, and knowledge required to carry out jobs in a given workplace. So Choice D is correct: the aim of observing workers and collecting information is to identify the present-day tasks of the job. Choice E describes, in general, how the analyst goes about fulfilling this goal, but collecting data is not in itself the objective; rather, it is to draw accurate conclusions based on the data. Management may use the job analysis for a variety of reasons—Choices A, B, and C give three possibilities—but to use the analysis effectively in such ways, it must represent the current requirements of the jobs, so that is its goal.