Job Descriptions
Question: Why are job descriptions important?
Answer: Job descriptions serve a variety of purposes for both managers and employees, including:
- Helping managers explain the key functions of the position when interviewing applicants and/or orienting new employees
- Providing employees and their supervisors with additional information to support developing performance and work objectives
- Guiding compensation bench-marking and organizational design decisions by comparing similar levels of job duties and incumbent requirements for knowledge, skills and abilities
- Improving employee performance by measuring performance with the stated duties and responsibilities of the job
- Providing employees with clear definitions of job requirements and expectations for enhanced employee development
- Guiding employees, their medical practitioners and management through decisions relating to potential workplace accommodation discussions
- Giving management a more organized and defensible basis for human resources decisions
