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Job Analysis & Workforce Design

A practical professional development programme focused on job analysis & workforce design, designed to strengthen people capability and organisational performance.

Type
Professional
Level
Intermediate
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Job Analysis & Workforce Design develops the capability to define roles clearly and design workforce structures that support organisational strategy, accountability and efficient execution.

The programme examines job analysis, responsibilities, outputs, competencies, reporting relationships, spans of control and alternative workforce-design options.

Participants learn how accurate role design supports recruitment, performance, grading, development, workforce planning and organisational effectiveness.

Objectives

  • Understand the principles of job analysis and workforce design.

  • Develop clear role responsibilities and outputs.

  • Identify knowledge, skills and competency requirements.

  • Evaluate reporting relationships and workload design.

  • Use job information to support wider HR and organisational processes.

Learning outcomes

  • Conduct a structured job analysis.

  • Develop clear and practical job descriptions.

  • Define role competencies and requirements.

  • Assess role duplication, gaps and workload issues.

  • Recommend workforce-design improvements aligned with organisational needs.

Who it is for

  • HR and workforce-design professionals.

  • Job analysis and job evaluation specialists.

  • Organisation design professionals.

  • HR business partners.

  • Managers involved in restructuring or role design.

Programme modules

1. Job Analysis Foundations
  • Purpose of job analysis

  • Jobs, roles and positions

  • Sources of job information

  • Job-analysis methods

2. Responsibilities and Outputs
  • Role purpose

  • Key responsibilities

  • Expected outputs

  • Decision authority

3. Job Requirements and Competencies
  • Knowledge and skills

  • Behavioural competencies

  • Qualifications and experience

  • Role-specific requirements

4. Job Descriptions
  • Job-description structure

  • Clear and measurable wording

  • Avoiding duplication

  • Review and validation

5. Workforce and Organisation Design
  • Reporting relationships

  • Spans of control

  • Workload distribution

  • Role interfaces and dependencies

6. Using Job Analysis in HR
  • Recruitment

  • Performance management

  • Job evaluation

  • Workforce planning and development

Methodology

The programme uses job-analysis templates, role-design exercises, organisational scenarios and practical review of job information. Participants develop and evaluate role profiles using structured methods.

Assessment

Assessment includes job-analysis exercises and preparation of a complete role profile together with recommendations for workforce or role-design improvement.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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Upcoming sessions

No dates are scheduled at present.

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