responsibility of managing personnel may be broken down into operations such as “participate in the hiring process,” “coordinate activities,” etc. Additional information should therefore be collected in order to specify what this person actually does when participating in the hiring process, coordinating activities, etc.
Generally, the job analysis workshop should serve to gather and validate the information required for the table of occupational tasks and operations. Describing the suboperations provides additional information. The information collected in this way is for reference purposes only and, because of lack of time, is generally not validated. The facilitation team may, however, deem it appropriate to have the participants validate the suboperations providing that this does not interfere with the other information to be gathered during the workshop.
Characteristics of the tasks
Significance within the occupation: A task corresponds to an activity that is easy to describe by a person familiar with the occupation. It can be used as an order. The task is one of the main responsibilities of the worker, who spends a large portion of time on it. For example, “repair brakes,” “make a device” and “give a shampoo.”
Correspondence with the actual work situation: Artificial groupings into tasks must be avoided. It may be tempting to group different occupational activities which, in effect, never occur together. For example, “take the brakes apart” and “take the transmission apart” are not tasks that are normally grouped together.