Explanation : Job Description
Job Description is a written list of a job’s duties, responsibilities, reporting relationships, working conditions, and supervisory
responsibilities involved in a job.
Job description is an important document, which is basically descriptive in nature. It intends to identify a job for consideration by
job analyst. Job description is a summary of statistical information relating to a particular job.
The word Job Description may be split up as: Job Description = ‘Job’ + ‘Description’ ‘Job’ means a collection of duties, tasks and
responsibilities which are assigned to an individual and which is different from other assignments.
‘Description’ means the act of describing something.
Thus, job description is a bailed down statement of the job analysis and serves to identify the job for consideration by job analysts.