WHAT IS JOB SPECIFICATION?

JOB SPECIFICATION

Job Specification is a standard of personnel and designates the qualities required for an acceptable performance. It is a written record of the requirements sought in an individual worker for a given job. In other words, it refers to a summary of the personal characteristics required for a job. It is a statement of the minimum acceptable human qualities necessary for the proper performance of a job. 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 are available in an application bank, with testing, interviews, and checking of references.

Job specifications relate to:

(a) Physical characteristics, which include health, strength, endurance, age-range, body size height, weight, vision, voice, poise, eye, hand and foot co-ordination, motor co-ordination, and color discrimination.

(b) Psychological characteristics or special aptitudes which include such qualities as manual dexterity, mechanical aptitude, ingenuity, judgment, resourcefulness, analytical ability, mental concentration and alertness.

(c) Personal characteristics traits of temperament such as personal appearance, good and pleasing manners, emotional stability, aggressiveness or submissiveness, extroversion; or, introversion, leadership, co-cooperativeness, initiative and drive, skill in dealing with others, unusual sensory qualities of sight, smell, hearing, adaptability, conversational ability, etc.

 (d) Responsibilities which include supervision of others, responsibility for production, process and equipment; responsibility for the safety of others; responsibility for generating confidence and trust; responsibility for preventing monetary loss.

 (e) Other features of a demographic nature, which are age, sex, and education experience and language ability.