Mgt470 Assignment 2
MGT470
Assignment 2
Read the Application Case 6-1: Job Analysis: Assistant Store Managers at Today's Fashion.
Critically evaluate the job analyses that Mary conducted for the position of assistant store manager. Has she used appropriate methods? What are the strengths and weaknesses of her efforts?
After critically evaluating the job analyses that Mary conducted for the position of assistant store manager, I feel that the appropriate method would have been to retain an outside source to conduct the analyses. The reason I feel Mary should have hired an outside source instead of conducting the interviews with the three current assistant store managers within her region is because of her bias with personal feelings through experiences she suffered while working as an assistant store manager and because her BBA degree is in marketing with no additional background experience or formal training in job analyses. Although she had the best intentions for doing the job analyses in bettering the assistant manager position, the weakness in doing the analyses herself was she lacked experience to do the analyses and could miss crucial steps or processes needed to evaluate properly. Additionally, Mary only conducted the analyses from a certain region that was closer to where her office was located and she should have analyzed other regions as well because different regions could have additional specialties or departments due to the Today’s chain being successful and catering to local customers’ tastes and buying habits. Each store has a different collection of merchandise, and several different combinations of departments. Without getting all regions assistant manager inputs, Mary limited the information within her job analyses. The strengths of her job analyses were that she had worked as an assistant manager so she knew the job thoroughly. Additionally, she realized that although she knew the assistant manager position well, she still interviewed other assistant
Assignment 2
Read the Application Case 6-1: Job Analysis: Assistant Store Managers at Today's Fashion.
Critically evaluate the job analyses that Mary conducted for the position of assistant store manager. Has she used appropriate methods? What are the strengths and weaknesses of her efforts?
After critically evaluating the job analyses that Mary conducted for the position of assistant store manager, I feel that the appropriate method would have been to retain an outside source to conduct the analyses. The reason I feel Mary should have hired an outside source instead of conducting the interviews with the three current assistant store managers within her region is because of her bias with personal feelings through experiences she suffered while working as an assistant store manager and because her BBA degree is in marketing with no additional background experience or formal training in job analyses. Although she had the best intentions for doing the job analyses in bettering the assistant manager position, the weakness in doing the analyses herself was she lacked experience to do the analyses and could miss crucial steps or processes needed to evaluate properly. Additionally, Mary only conducted the analyses from a certain region that was closer to where her office was located and she should have analyzed other regions as well because different regions could have additional specialties or departments due to the Today’s chain being successful and catering to local customers’ tastes and buying habits. Each store has a different collection of merchandise, and several different combinations of departments. Without getting all regions assistant manager inputs, Mary limited the information within her job analyses. The strengths of her job analyses were that she had worked as an assistant manager so she knew the job thoroughly. Additionally, she realized that although she knew the assistant manager position well, she still interviewed other assistant