The importance of human resources within an organization.

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"It is in fact difficult to imagine how an organisation could effectively hire, train, appraise, compensate or use its human resources without the kinds of information derived from job analysis" (Ivancevich 1995, as cited by Stone 2002:129)

The importance of human resources within an organization is becoming increasingly understood in today's rapidly changing and uncertain business environment (Davidson & Griffin 2000: 18).

In order to assist employees in helping an organisation to reach its strategic business goals, effective human resource managers often gather job related information in a job analysis and job description, which is vital to creating or re-designing jobs which provide employees with a high level of job satisfaction (Stone 2002: 123).

The basic human resource activity of gathering detailed information about a particular job's duties, tasks and responsibilities, can help organisations achieve strategic goals more efficiently and effectively by avoiding both duplication and overlapping of work in jobs, and also providing a job description by which employers are able to recruit and select the most appropriate employees for the job (Stone 2002: 128).

By conducting a regular job analysis in order to create effective job descriptions, and utilising this information