Difference Between Job Description And Role Description

Register to read the introduction… Today there is a merger between the traditional job descriptions and role description. Job Descriptions now also contain Key Strength Areas and competency models and thus are called role profiles. The documentation is thus richer and gives the person a better idea and understanding of his role and how he should perform to achieve objectives.

The Elements of Job:
Job Description:
Job description describes the job, the purpose of the job, contribution of the particular job towards the final goal or objective, the roles and responsibilities, the required skills and qualifications of the person to perform the job. The employees are the customers of the organization, and to elicit work from them, it needs to be made easy for them and clear. There should be a two-way gain: both for the organization as well as the employee and so job descriptions are extremely important.

Job Title:
The title of the job explains the work or the grade. The nearer the title is to the actual work, dissonance would be lower. It would explain the lateral, reporting, vertical …show more content…
If unresolved, such dissatisfaction could result in pay claims, increased costs and deteriorating morale and industrial relations. A job evaluation scheme, properly designed and installed with an appeals procedure, can help maintain the credibility and acceptability of a grading structure.

Technological and organisational change
It is important to ensure that the grading system is appropriate to the needs of an organization particularly following technological and organisational change. The introduction of flexibility, multi-skilling, team working and new operational methods also have important consequences for job design and the way jobs are organized, and will clearly affect traditional work groupings and pay structures. A further, important advantage of some job evaluation schemes is that new jobs can be more easily fitted into the existing structure.

Job evaluation may be helpful as a means of ensuring that a grading structure is fair and equitable.

Other benefits
Some job evaluation techniques require the analysis and description of jobs leading to a more detailed and accurate knowledge of their content. This in turn may