{"id":355,"date":"2006-04-14T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-04-09T21:13:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:13:30","slug":"responsibility-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Im realizing that I never actually defined why I called this series &#8220;responsibility.&#8221; Mostly, it was because we in HR have a responsibility to ensure that certain practices maintain the HR and employer brand. So far, we&#8217;ve talked about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=350\">values and what happens when leadership hypocrasy sets in<\/a>, and in part 2, about the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=354\">shared responsibility with operational leaders<\/a> to develop the next deneration of leadership. Today, we discuss a core responsibility of ensure job design actually meets reality and maximizes effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago I wrote a strangely titled article called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=324\">why I love compensation<\/a>.&#8221; I was truly serious when I wrote it, as the process of job design touches and initiates so many other processes in HR, and especially talent management.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\"> To understand what determines whether a job is designed for high performance, you must put yourself in the shoes of your organization&#8217;s managers. To carry out his or her job, each employee has to know the answer to four basic questions:<\/font>   <font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\">&#8220;What resources do I control to accomplish my tasks?&#8221;<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\">&#8220;What measures will be used to evaluate my performance?&#8221;<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\">&#8220;Who do I need to interact with and influence to achieve my goals?&#8221;<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\">&#8220;How much support can I expect when I reach out to others for help?&#8221;<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The questions correspond to what I call the four basic <em>spans<\/em>of a job: control, accountability, influence, and support. Each span can be adjusted so that it is narrow or wide or somewhere in between. I think of the adjustments as being made on sliders, like those found on music amplifiers. If you get the settings right, you can design a job in which a talented individual can successfully execute your company&#8217;s strategy. But if you get the settings wrong, it will be difficult for any employee to be effective. (( Simons, Robert, October 31, 2005. &#8220;Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company.&#8221; HBS Working Knowledge. Retrived from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/5067.html\">http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu<\/a> on March 11, 2005.))<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/archive\/images\/ORG_sidebar_5067.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In compensation&#8217;s job analysis, we often think about what and how a job is performed. With that in mind, we look at skills, necessary knowledge, etc.. However, we don&#8217;t always look at the environment and relationships that are needed for a person to perform well. While we in HR don&#8217;t design these &#8220;spans&#8221; employees entering jobs do need to understand them in order to be successful. HR also has a responsibility to communicate with management to make them understand how their actions affect job performance and how they can support these &#8220;spans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also see the series on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=263\">Leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im realizing that I never actually defined why I called this series &#8220;responsibility.&#8221; Mostly, it was because we in HR have a responsibility to ensure that certain practices maintain the HR and employer brand. So far, we&#8217;ve talked about values&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation","category-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}