Jobs and Roles: Accepting and Coping With the Changing Structure of Organizations Daniel R. ligen

This chapter was prepared for a conference on selection and classification. Yet the conference began not with a discussion of selection and classification models and practices but with a discussion of the nature of jobs and their measurement. Does it seem strange or, perhaps, somewhat misguided, that we led off such a conference with a discussion of jobs when selection and classification were our primary concerns? Obviously not-none of the participants questioned this order because we all share the same underlying view of selection and classification.