You have been working ACE Paper Company as a Senior Executive in the Human Resource (HR)...

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You have been working ACE Paper Company as a Senior Executive in the Human Resource (HR) Department for 2.5 years. Your immediate superior, the HR Manager, Madam Liew is 56 years old this year, and she is from the Baby Boomers generation. Throughout the 2.5 years, you observe there are a lot of HR matters that you would like to suggest for changes. However, as you were new at that time, you did not take any actions but continue to observe in order to collect more information to justify your recommendations later. For example, your superior, Madam Liew still insist of advertising in local newspapers only when doing recruitment exercise. As a result, most of the recruitment exercises could not attract fresh graduates or young potential candidates. She also displays a 'not-really' friendly attitude while communicating with the young generation, especially the Generation Y & Z. To make the matter worse, Madam Liew disallows the young generation to seek for clarifications on certain HR matters. She feels that the younger generation employees are rude and don't really like to take instructions and have their own opinions. She prefers to work with employees that are agreeable and always listens to her. Madam Liew is very much insistent on doing things as per how it was and she doesn't like change. This has affected the company's business badly as many HR policies and strategies and are not updated according to the current industry requirements and standards. She only prefers to hire local Malaysians as it makes her job easier as a HR person. In addition, she also does not really focus on the latest happenings in the industry of paper. As companies are going paperless and business revenue is affected badly. However she did not do any changes to adjust compensation and remunerations packages in the company as well to follow the trends of the industry. Besides, that while you are checking the personal files of the employees, you discovered that not all the employees have the Job Description (JD) and Job Specification (JS) filed accordingly. To verify, you spoke to some of the employees to confirm your observation. Almost 70% of the employees' feedback that they have not seen them own JD or JS before. This has cause the company to have issues with work quality and proper task delegations. As such, you figure that perhaps it is time to conduct a Job Analysis b) You are required to discuss FIVE (5) nature of Job Analysis factors that should be considered when designing a job. Provide suitable examples in your discussion which are applicable in the case mentioned You have been working ACE Paper Company as a Senior Executive in the Human Resource (HR) Department for 2.5 years. Your immediate superior, the HR Manager, Madam Liew is 56 years old this year, and she is from the Baby Boomers generation. Throughout the 2.5 years, you observe there are a lot of HR matters that you would like to suggest for changes. However, as you were new at that time, you did not take any actions but continue to observe in order to collect more information to justify your recommendations later. For example, your superior, Madam Liew still insist of advertising in local newspapers only when doing recruitment exercise. As a result, most of the recruitment exercises could not attract fresh graduates or young potential candidates. She also displays a 'not-really' friendly attitude while communicating with the young generation, especially the Generation Y & Z. To make the matter worse, Madam Liew disallows the young generation to seek for clarifications on certain HR matters. She feels that the younger generation employees are rude and don't really like to take instructions and have their own opinions. She prefers to work with employees that are agreeable and always listens to her. Madam Liew is very much insistent on doing things as per how it was and she doesn't like change. This has affected the company's business badly as many HR policies and strategies and are not updated according to the current industry requirements and standards. She only prefers to hire local Malaysians as it makes her job easier as a HR person. In addition, she also does not really focus on the latest happenings in the industry of paper. As companies are going paperless and business revenue is affected badly. However she did not do any changes to adjust compensation and remunerations packages in the company as well to follow the trends of the industry. Besides, that while you are checking the personal files of the employees, you discovered that not all the employees have the Job Description (JD) and Job Specification (JS) filed accordingly. To verify, you spoke to some of the employees to confirm your observation. Almost 70% of the employees' feedback that they have not seen them own JD or JS before. This has cause the company to have issues with work quality and proper task delegations. As such, you figure that perhaps it is time to conduct a Job Analysis b) You are required to discuss FIVE (5) nature of Job Analysis factors that should be considered when designing a job. Provide suitable examples in your discussion which are applicable in the case mentioned