All company owners and people thinking about starting their own company should have some form of written job descriptions for each position at their firm. Developing and maintaining job descriptions are essential to running a smooth operation with minimal setbacks due to employees. Companies that don’t have job descriptions are likely to face backlash from employees and experience slower production times. The challenges that come with writing job descriptions are making sure that you only put down relevant tasks and things that must be done for each position, another challenge is making sure each task that must be completed is accounted for and each person knows specifically their role in the company. 

Job descriptions are not all the same in each company and differ in how they should be prepared. Some companies organizational structure in the same field as each other may change how the employees their complete their jobs. Companies should make sure that they are always analyzing and developing their job descriptions to keep up to date with technology advances and upgrades in procedures that employees must follow. To always have up to date job descriptions companies should do an annual review of each position and make changes accordingly. 

 This responsibility to do an annual review of job descriptions should be handled by a company’s HR division and if one is already established the job to make changes to them comes much easier. The duty to take the advice from the HR department and implement them comes down to management. Another way to achieve this same result is to hire an outside company to analyze and make recommendations so that conflict within the company isn’t created for no reason. Developing and maintain job descriptions are one of the most important factors in running a successful company.