JOB ANALYSIS 
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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