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washai

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Writing a competencies-based job description typically involves compiling a list of job duties.
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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What is a competency-based job analysis? Why should firms consider describing jobs in terms of competencies instead of duties?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: FALSE

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Job competencies are always observable and measurable behaviors. To determine what a job's required competencies are, you should ask, In order to perform this job competently, what should the employee be able to do? We can say that competency-based job analysis means describing the job in terms of measurable, observable, behavioral competencies (knowledge, skills, and/or behaviors) that an employee doing that job must exhibit to do the job well.

Competency-based job descriptions are beneficial to firms that are striving to be high-performance work systems. Here the whole thrust is to encourage employees to work in a self-motivated way. Employers do this by empowering employees, organizing the work around teams, encouraging team members to rotate freely among jobs, and pushing more responsibility for things like day-to-day supervision down to the workers.



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