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  addition ­
  a  more  detailed  and  technical  analysis  such  as  has
been  taken  up  in  the  foregoing  chapters.  It  does,  however, ­
  embrace  the  most  fundamental  and  important
elements  which  characterize  most  factory  jobs,  and  which