14 reasons why job descriptions are important:

(non exhaustive)


Job descriptions improve an organization's ability to manage people and roles in the following ways:
1·   Clarifies employer expectations for employee
2.    Provides basis of measuring job performance
3·   Provides clear, legal description of role for job candidates
4·   Provides a structure and discipline for company to understand and structure all jobs and ensure necessary activities, duties and responsibilities are covered by one job or another
5·   Provides continuity of role parameters irrespective of manager interpretation
6·   Enables pay and grading systems to be structured fairly and logically
7·   Prevents arbitrary interpretation of role content and limit by employee, employer and manager
8·   Essential reference tool in issues of employee/employer dispute. (Save legal costs at court).
9·   Essential reference tool for discipline issues
10·   Provides important reference points for training and development areas
11·   Provides neutral and objective (as opposed to subjective or arbitrary) reference points for appraisals, performance reviews and counselling
12·   Enables formulation of skill set and behaviour set requirements per role
13·   Enables organization to structure and manage roles in a uniform way, thus increasing efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment, training and development, organizational structure, work flow and activities, customer service, etc.
14·   Enables factual view (as opposed to instinctual) to be taken by employees and managers in career progression and succession planning.

Chris Wilkinson.                              

Certified Business Behaviour & Attitudes Analyst.               

Business Coach.

Tel: (905) 275-2907 (Mississauga) Canada.

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