Job Design and Staff Recruitment

The Capable Manager -- Book 5

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 1996

ISBN: 0-7492-4916-1

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• Session 1 Job Design
• Introduction
• 1.1 The Case for Job Design
• The Benefits of Job Design
• How Jobs Develop
• 1.2 Approaches to job Design
• Job Rotation
• Job Enlargement
• Job Enrichment
• Managing Job Enrichment
• 1.3 Principles of Job Design
• Skill Variety
• Task Identity
• Task Significance
• Combining Skill Variety, Task Identity and Task Significance
• Autonomy
• Feedback
• Social Interaction and Group Working
• Physical and Psychological Demands of the Job
• 1.4 Making a Change
• Summary and objectives
• Session 2 Job Redesign at ICL — a Video Case Study
• Session 3 Recruiting Staff
• Introduction
• 3.1 What Responsibilities and Authority Do You Have?
• 3.2 Job Analysis, Job Descriptions and Job Specifications
• Job Analysis
• Job Descriptions
• Job Specifications
• Taking Account of the Context
• 3.3 Casting the Recruitment Net
• Sources of Recruits
• Advertising
• Further Particulars
• Application Forms
• Handling Applicants’ Paperwork
• Shortlisting of Candidates
• References
• Candidates Make Decisions Too
• Summary and objectives
• Session 4 The Selection Interview
• Introduction
• 4.1 Getting Ready for the Interview
• What Do You Need?
• What Does the Candidate Need?
• The Location — What is Needed?
• The Interview — What Does it Need?
• What are You Looking for in the Candidates?
• How Do You Find What You are Looking For?
• Who Should Be Involved as Interviewers?
• 4.2 Conducting the Interview
• Getting Going
• Conducting the Interview
• Framing the Question
• Controlling the Flow
• ‘Listening’
• Making Judgements
• Drawing the Interview to a Close
• 4.3 Making the Decision
• Summary and objectives
• Session 5 Alternative Methods of Recruitment and Selection
• Introduction
• 5.1 Alternative Methods of Recruitment
• Employment Agencies
• Executive Selection Consultants
• Executive Search Consultants
• 5.2 Alternative Methods of Selection
• Aptitude Tests
• Physical Ability
• Mental Ability
• Analogous Tests
• Personality Tests
• Assessment Centres
• 5.3 A Different Way of Thinking About Selection
• Summary and objectives
• Appendix A Your Next Job
• Introduction
• A.1 Being Recruited
• Preparing Your CV
• Completing Application Forms
• A.2 Being Selected
• Being Interviewed
• Being Tested
• Summary and objectives