Challenges Associated with Developing and Maintaining Job Descriptions
The hiring practice begins with job roles, which steer businesses and candidates. The job roles underpin recruiting, performance review, and staff progression. Organizations should therefore build and sustain job roles to attract and retain top candidate capability. To successfully communicate obligations and responsibilities, mitigate prejudices, and promote workplace advancement and inclusion, job roles should be properly developed and kept current.
Developing an accurate workload or task-specific job description is, indeed, a challenging issue. The majority of job descriptions need to be updated and accurately portray the role. Hence, regular evaluation of the job description within the company is needed through the employees’ feedback, work shadowing, and involvement of the managers during general staff meetings related to new jobs. Having inclusive job descriptions supports a good talent strategy that caters for current and upcoming needs[1]. The potential candidates can also become scared by lengthy and detailed job description, which is just going to lengthen your selection process. Moreover, making job descriptions inclusive and bias-free is an additional challenge. Many firms struggle to write job descriptions without implicit or explicit prejudices that impede diversity and inclusion. To reduce this, firms should involve diverse personnel in job description formulation and evaluation.
Moreover, it can be difficult to develop and sustain job descriptions. Job descriptions change along with the changing nature of employment, duties, and responsibilities. Nevertheless, going through with this approach may take more time and utilize a lot of resources. Regular review and updating of job descriptions is necessary to keep current in terms of work responsibilities. Factors such as experience, knowledge, soft and technical skills, emotions, and behaviors form the basis of human resource performance[2]. Job descriptions should therefore focus on growth opportunities, main functions, and roles for each position. Through incorporating these remedies, entities can come up with competent and all-inclusive job specifications in line with their objectives that draw leading contenders into the companies.
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Midhat Ali, Muhammad, Sheheryar Mohsin Qureshi, Muhammad Saad Memon, Sonia Irshad Mari, and Muhammad Babar Ramzan. “Competency Framework Development for Effective Human Resource Management.” SAGE Open 11, no. 2 (April 2021): 215824402110061. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211006124.
Morelli, Neil. “Council Post: Why Quality Job Descriptions Still Matter in Today’s World of Work.” Forbes, January 4, 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2023/01/04/why-quality-job-descriptions-still-matter-in-todays-world-of-work/?sh=6b42722f1b3b.
[1] Neil Morelli, “Council Post: Why Quality Job Descriptions Still Matter in Today’s World of Work,” Forbes, January 4, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2023/01/04/why-quality-job-descriptions-still-matter-in-todays-world-of-work/?sh=6b42722f1b3b.
[2] Muhammad Midhat Ali et al., “Competency Framework Development for Effective Human Resource Management,” SAGE Open 11, no. 2 (April 2021): 215824402110061, https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211006124.
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