Strategy Exercise: Imagine that you are a staffing specialist in Vroom, a 10-year-old company that manufactures toy cars. The cars are high quality and receive a premium price. Workers assemble pieces of the cars by hand on an assembly line. Some of the assemblers are great at what they do, but others have trouble keeping up and tend to slow the line down. Vroom wants to keep its labor costs as low as possible. However, it is willing to invest in assessment systems to evaluate job candidates and help it identify the most promising candidates to hire.

You believe that your staffing system for the assemblers could be improved so there’s less performance variability among them. Unfortunately, it has been 10 years since the last job analysis was done for the position, and many of the tools and assembly methods have changed. After asking for money to use in conducting an updated job analysis on the assembler position, your CEO asks you to justify your request. Using what you have learned in this chapter, write a one-page report convincing your CEO to invest the money in the job analysis project, describing what resources you would need to do it.