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The Trouble Is In The Job Description

Job descriptions are very critical to hiring good staff in all types of industries. I found it very important to have clear and detailed job descriptions when hiring for manufacturing jobs such as machine operators, assemblers, and welders. As our facility has a “one team” mindset, it is impossible for us to say that you will only do what your title says you do. Our HR team has done an okay job in writing and maintaining our job descriptions. However, there is an opportunity for improvement.

To be useful, our job descriptions need to be much broader than they are currently but include more detail than they do currently. You can tell by reading them that the HR team has worked with the supervisors in each department to help guide the job descriptions to fit each role. However, as mentioned in lecture one, they used a competency modeling approach mixed with a critical incident approach to get as generic as possible to allow the job descriptions to be managed more easily.

One thing we could benefit from is having a team that conducts a Task-KSAO Analysis as mentioned as an approach in lecture one. I often see new hires that come into our facility that have never seen a battery-operated drill and for sure have never used one. This is a problem because most of our assembly jobs require the use of drills all day to complete your job tasks. Our job descriptions are written so generally that they say use of hand tools instead of calling out the specific hand tools commonly used in the job. If we had this increased level of detail, it would possibly weed out candidates who do not have these skills unless they lie about their skills. That would save a lot of money for onboarding and would save money on training costs.

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The Best Company

According to “https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/100-best/2024” the top three companies to work for in 2024 are Hilton, Cisco, and NVIDIA. The two most common reasons the employees say these are the best places to work are people and culture. This shows that these companies understand the importance of human resources management. In lecture one for this week, it discusses why human resource management matters. It is said that people matter and organizational culture matters. Human resource management has an effect on both people and culture. Human resource management is about helping the people (employees) and ensuring that they are happy with the culture, benefits, and environment of the organization.

As I am in a leadership role already, I have a great sense of the leader I want to be. I strive to be a servant leader, putting the needs and success of my employees above my own. This ties to the idea of people matter in the human resource management world. This also builds a culture that embraces the voice of everyone and the development of everyone. A quote by the Jocko Willink, “To implement real change, to drive people to accomplish something truly complex or difficult or dangerous — you can’t make people do these things. You have to lead them.”, sticks out to me when it comes to the type of leader I strive to be. I want to ensure I manage my human capital in a way that ensures they are supported to accomplish all they set out to accomplish in their career by being a leader and not a boss.

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