... The Netherlands Job descriptions The discussion on how ERP‐systems impact job content mainly considers employee autonomy, often dubbed “empowerment” (Psoinos and Smithson, 2002) or more precisely “job decision latitude” (Karasek, 1979), and control. Employee autonomy is directly influenced...

... a significant negative effect on the number of unqualified (based on GPA and major) individuals responding. Interestingly, their results showed that if quantity of qualified applicants was the focus, an optimal ad should combine a specific job description with a vague job specification. However...

... are increasingly being delegated to line managers. Describes an attempt to structure the knowledge in this non‐formal domain and then the development of a computerized knowledge‐ based system to support the non‐expert in this task. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Job analysis Job descriptions Job specifications...

... with job and/or task analysis, move to job description and thence to Person Specification. We will call this approach: "job first - person later". As was pointed out above, this approach often hides a number of fundamental problems. One is that of taxonomy. It is not at all obvious that the terms which...