A job description is an important tool to every organization. Lacking it may lead to some negative effects as explained below.
1. A wrong person will be hired: A job description outlines the required qualifications for a job, the recruiters use them to attract best candidates to apply for a job but also to filter the candidates who applied for a job to get the best one(s). Thus if there is no job description recruiters may hire a wrong person in a job.
2. Unaccountability: The expectations outline in a job description should be met, this helps to raise employees accountability. In other hand if the company has no a job description means there is no defined roles, responsibilities and expectations thus employees won't be accountable in their jobs.
3. Poor performance management: One of the uses of job description is to manage employees performance, thus in this case if there is no job description there will be poor performance management.
4. Indiscipline: A job description can sometimes be used in maintaining the employees discipline by showing them the areas where they do wrong. Thus, if there is no job description, may lead to indiscipline.
5. Failing to Identify the training needs: There is no doubt that a job description is an important tool for evaluating performance and identifying the areas where employee don't perform well. Therefore if there is no job description employers won't be able to Identify the training needs.
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