AKiCiF: Job descriptions
Thursday, October 28th, 2010 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI know we have a couple of HR-types reading here. I'm coming away from one of the most surreal conversations I have ever had with an HR person and I need a...triple-check, it would be, on current usage.
Suppose one has a Job Description. It goes like this:
Job Title: Secretary, Ministry of Silly Walks
Function: To provide secretarial support to the chairman of the Ministry of Silly Walks
Duties:
1. Sort the mail
2. Answer public inquiries regarding the nature and history of MoSW
3. Produce and distribute posters advertising MoSW functions
4. Walk silly
5. Monitor office supply levels and order as necessary
6. Other duties as assigned
My question lies with Number 6. I've only been working off and on in a clerical capacity since 1968, so my understanding may be flawed, but what I take Number 6 to mean is that if my boss, the Minister of MoSW, should decide that the Ministry needs, oh, a webpage and assigns me to build and maintain it, that's an "other duty" -- which is to say, a new task not anticipated when the core list of duties was compiled by whoever compiled the original job description.
Does Number 6, in current HR philosophy, also mean that the Prime Minister may append the Ministry of Funny Mustaches to the above job description as "other duties" stipulating that the MoFM is its own power, equal in the org chart to the MoSW?
Inquiring minds...
Suppose one has a Job Description. It goes like this:
Job Title: Secretary, Ministry of Silly Walks
Function: To provide secretarial support to the chairman of the Ministry of Silly Walks
Duties:
1. Sort the mail
2. Answer public inquiries regarding the nature and history of MoSW
3. Produce and distribute posters advertising MoSW functions
4. Walk silly
5. Monitor office supply levels and order as necessary
6. Other duties as assigned
My question lies with Number 6. I've only been working off and on in a clerical capacity since 1968, so my understanding may be flawed, but what I take Number 6 to mean is that if my boss, the Minister of MoSW, should decide that the Ministry needs, oh, a webpage and assigns me to build and maintain it, that's an "other duty" -- which is to say, a new task not anticipated when the core list of duties was compiled by whoever compiled the original job description.
Does Number 6, in current HR philosophy, also mean that the Prime Minister may append the Ministry of Funny Mustaches to the above job description as "other duties" stipulating that the MoFM is its own power, equal in the org chart to the MoSW?
Inquiring minds...
Minister of Funny Mustaches
Date: 2010-10-28 09:20 pm (UTC)You could point out that if the MoFM does not have a secretarial type person to assist him, you could in fact be expected to spend more time on his staff than on that of the MoSW's.
Usually, other duties, should only include your present emplorer, MoSW, and not be loaned out to anyone else.
MoSW IS WRONG in not defining duties and length of service to MoFM.
Get a memo or something in written form. Post-it note if he is memo challenged. Take it to HR and request more money.
MoFM will then be on his own.
HM