Exploration of the Current State of Job Analysis in Ghanaian Organisations

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore the current state of job analysis among organisations in Ghana. This lead to identifying the methods employed, domains focused on and the sources of inaccuracies during the development of job analysis. The study further found out whether job analysis had any effect on performance indicators such as improved health and safety, training and development, performance evaluation and compensation. The study was conducted among organisations in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana and participants selected for the study were purposively sampled. Eighteen (18) human resource managers responded to the open-ended questionnaires and 95 human resource officers and managers responded to the questionnaire on the quantitative section. The study design adopted was a mixed method. Thematic analysis of the qualitative data revealed that organisations in Ghana who conduct job analysis employ methods such as Interview, Questionnaires, Curricula Vitae Analysis, Job Description Analysis, and Functional Job Analysis and they focus on domains such as Skills, Knowledge, Ability and other characteristics such as personality type, educational background and working experience. Sources of inaccuracies such as subjective judgment on the part of analyst and inaccurate information on curricula vitae were identified. Results from MANOVA analysis indicated that organisations which conduct job analysis experienced improvement on performance indicators such as training and development, performance evaluation, health and safety and compensation. The study recommends that future studies can pick on the findings of this exploratory study to validate using a different population.