JOB ANALYSIS 26l Name of job Physical characteristics of job: 1. Machine Number of 2. Hand work 3. Heavy light medium 4. Lifting hauling climbing standing sitting walking—— 5. Clean- dirty hot cold 6. Kind of eyesight required . Mental characteristics: 1. Educational 2. Prerequisite experience 3. Ability in English: Read——write spell ■ talk 4. Ability in mathematics: Copy figures add subtract multiply divide decimals . Miscellaneous: 1. Earnings a. Day-work maximum minimum average b. Piece-work maximum minimum average 2. Hours 3. Possibilities of promotion 4. Time required to break in new man 5. A brief statement of any other essential features of the job . The above outline is a comprehensive plan to which the description of the large majority of factory jobs conform. To be sure, this outline does not contain many items which are important for certain kinds of work, especially the more highly skilled trades. These trades require in addi tion a more detailed and technical analysis such as has been taken up in the foregoing chapters. It does, how ever, embrace the most fundamental and important elements which characterize most factory jobs, and which