The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-7494-4562-1 (ISBN)
Description
Job descriptions are essential for recruitment, job evaluation, performance appraisal, training and development, and in grievance and disciplinary cases. This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available to help managers to construct individualised job descriptions. It also gives helpful advice on how to create job descriptions and how to analyse jobs.
Contents include: Part 1: 1.Purpose of job descriptions 2.Forms and types of job description 3.Analysing jobs 4.Rules of preparation 5.Job information Part 2: 6.Main job elements (e.g. financial management, resource management, project management etc broken down into detailed task descriptions, accountabilities, qualifications, competencies, output measures etc) Part 3: Model job descriptions from every job category; director level to manual jobs.
Contents include: Part 1: 1.Purpose of job descriptions 2.Forms and types of job description 3.Analysing jobs 4.Rules of preparation 5.Job information Part 2: 6.Main job elements (e.g. financial management, resource management, project management etc broken down into detailed task descriptions, accountabilities, qualifications, competencies, output measures etc) Part 3: Model job descriptions from every job category; director level to manual jobs.
Reviews / Votes
"Fear not. The task of writing pointless job descriptions could be a thing of the past - because someone has written a book packed full of them... the perfect birthday present for your hard-pressed personnel manager." The Daily Telegraph "Provides a source of more than 200 job descriptions, based on actual jobs and separated into categories such as sales and marketing and finance and accounting." People Management "For an inexperienced drafter, there would be... value in being able to find a model for a wide variety of roles." Personnel Today "Excellent guide to job descriptions with over 200 job description examples and additional job elements sections." Businessballs.comMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-4562-1 (9780749445621)
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Barry Cushway
The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions
Book
03/2008
1st Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
€106.30
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Person
Barry Cushway is an independent HR consultant and Personnel Adviser to the IOD. With over 30 years' HR and employment law experience, he has previously worked for Price Waterhouse, Hay and MSL and undertaken projects for over 100 public and private sector organizations. He is author and Executive Editor of Gee's best-selling loose-leaf work, Essential Facts: Employment and numerous other titles including The Employer's Handbook, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour and Design (all Kogan Page). He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Institute of Personnel and Development.
Content
Part 1: 1. Purpose of job descriptions 2. Forms and types of job description 3. Analysing jobs 4. Rules of preparation 5. Job information Part 2: 6. Main job elements (e.g. financial management, resource management, project management etc broken down into detailed task descriptions, accountabilities, qualifications, competencies, output measures etc) Part 3: Model job descriptions from every job category; director level to manual jobs.