Need to vent!
scottorr
599 Posts
I have had a very busy & hectic week. On Tuesday I was told by my VP that she will need 58 job description by Friday. I asked her when she knew she needed these and she said she knew two month ago but forgot to tell me. We only have 10 of them on file, the rest need to be created. Thanks for letting vent, time to get back to the descriptions.
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We recently got more organized about our job descriptions and ended up re-doing all of them throughout the company. In most areas, including all of the people in my division, we let the persons in the job take the first crack at the job descriptions. Managers edited and improved, directors edited and improved, then HR edited and improved - mostly for ADA compliance and the like.
How do the rest of you handle job descriptions?
Brad Forrister
Director of Publishing
M. Lee Smith Publishers
When I came to my present job about 3 1/2 years ago, all the job descriptions were awful - years old and not ADA compliant. I just bit the bullet and redid them all myself with input from supervisors. Most of them now know how to update them when needed.
We probably won't hear from you the rest of the week! Good luck.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
>union but I have been trying to update our JD's for a long time and
>create them when management goes about inventing new jobs. I don't
>have to do this? Please say it's true!
As far as I know this is one area of employment that there is no law or regulation written stating you have to have JDs. BUT why would you not want to have them? I would think it would be very difficult to administer any type of disciplinary action concerning performance if the EE had no clue what the essential duties of the job were. We are in the processing of revising all of ours for the new ISO certification and as Brad stated in his post, we are requiring our department supervisors to submit the first draft. Then our quality department will tweek them.
When was the last time you heard the statement "That's not my job” In our non-union, non-job description environment we never hear this from ee's because of that all encompassing statement in the SOP's of "other duties as assigned."
Safety is correct in that there is no federally or state mandate for job descriptions. There are tons of reasons to have them but salutations to one who chooses not to. I recall Paul or somebody in some idyllic job setting a year ago saying they don't have them and don't have job titles or discipline. Any of you guys recall that? Maybe it was Gillian.
What I find humorous is we have been on an education kick. That college degree is becoming the focal point of determining qualification. Our site QA Director must have a BS degree, the next level up, Corporate Director of QA only needs an Associates degree. The corporate director is a long time employee and her description was written to grandfather her in.