Personally I feel like developing and maintaining job descriptions is a very essential part of any business. These sort of things set the standard for what is expected of each individual and will let everyone know what they’re supposed to do if they were in this job. For any company to be successful they have to set these standards up so that each employee can recognize that this will be apart of their job. It is also very important that the employer does have these job descriptions somewhere so that they can see what position is supposed to be Abe to handle certain tasks.
Some of the challenges with developing and maintaining job descriptions is that sometimes they might not have enough detail in them to really have the employee understand what they’re supposed to do. One of the things that I have noticed while looking for new jobs or going into interviews for these new jobs is that the job description can sometimes be very vague about what you’re actually supposed to do and then when you start the new job the expect you to do way more than what was listed on the job description. This may be because the company hasn’t really spent much time developing their job descriptions or they don’t want to scare away potential employees by making the job seem very intense. You really see this type of situation play out when companies who are just trying to hire new employees as much as possible because they’re short staffed they might not put as much detail into the job description as they would the benefits of working in that position.
Some of the challenges of not having any job descriptions is that the employee doesn’t really have any direction about what they’re supposed to do. The employee really has no idea what is expected of them as well as they really have no foundation of what they’re supposed to do on a daily basis. I think that having an in depth job description takes a little pressure off upper management because they don’t really have to go over the daily tasks with their employees because the employee will know what is expected of them on a daily basis.
