In this way, all three methods of job analysis can integrate in order to provide an objective as well as global overview of the job being analyzed. When analyzing the Packagers job, all three methods will then be used in an integrated way. Because of the size of the company, interviews and questionnaires have been considered as unviable. It would simply take too much time and effort to administer and analyze questionnaires. Interviews in turn would impose upon the work time of workers, and would not be sufficiently accurate to be of value to the analysis.

In order to assemble the information and complete the analysis in a timely manner, it was decided to delegate the self-reporting tasks to team managers. Each team manager will provide a self-report of his or her own, together with gathering self-reports from subordinates. These will then be consolidated and provided to the HR Manager. For the observation aspect, the HR manager will hire external researchers to ensure objectivity. Finally, the process analysis will be conducted with the use of all the information...

For Packagers, the main purpose of the analysis is to provide a more accurate description of the packager job. In order to accomplish this, it is vital to remain objective throughout the analysis. This will be accomplished by involving external researchers to work with internal team managers. The analysis will also be conducted by means of a specific schedule for the various tasks involved to ensure that it occurs in a timely manner.
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