Job Analysis: Law/Legal Issues: Legal Standards
The results of a job analysis may include:
- Major job functions or duties
- Common personal interactions
- Work tasks
- Skills or competencies
- Critical situations faced by incumbents
- Work related knowledge
- Performance standards and rating scales
- Physical abilities
- Career paths
- Work environment factors
- Work experience requirements
- Decision making authority
- Education requirements
- Typical-day descriptions
- Training requirements
- Certification requirements
- Related job families
- Competency models
- determining hiring criteria
- defining new positions
- communicating job responsibilities
- identifying training content needs
- restructuring jobs and businesses
- determining appropriate measures for performance appraisals
The job-relatedness of the test content should be based on a careful job analysis with professional "translation of the job analysis results into test items" (Guardians, 1980).