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What are the contents included in Job Specification?
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Job specification is also the bye-product of job analysis. Job specification takes the job description and answers the question. "What human traits (qualities) and experience are needed to do the job well ? It tells what kind of person to recruit and for what qualities that person should be tested. A job specification is a statement of the minimum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job satisfactorily. According to Flippo a job specification is a statement of minimum acceptable human qualities necessary to perform a job properly." In the words of Dale Yoder "the job specification is a specialised job description, emphasising personnel requirement and designed especially to facilitate selection and placement."
Job specifications translate the job description into terms of the human qualifications which are required for a successful performance of a job. They are intended to serve as a guide in hiring and job evaluation. As a guide in hiring, they deal with such characteristics as arc available in an application blank, with testing, interviews and checking of references.
Job specifications are developed with the cooperation of the personnel department and various supervisors in the whole organisation. The personnel department coordinates the writing of job description and job-specification and secures agreement on the qualifications required. These specifications include following -
(1) Physical characteristics which include health, strength, endurance, age-range, body-size, height, weight, vision, voice, poise, eye, hand and foot coordination, motor coordination etc.
(2) Psychological characteristics which include judgment, resourcefulness, analytical ability, decision-making ability alertness etc.
(3) Personnel characteristics which include pleasing appearance, good manners, leadership, cooperativeness, initiative and drive, mental stability etc.
(4) Responsibilities which include supervision of others, sense of responsibility etc.
(5) Other features of a demographic nature such as age, sex, education, experience etc.
