Job description
What Job description means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
A document that states the job title, duties, location, pay and conditions.
A document outlining the duties and responsibilities of the role.
A document that outlines the duties, responsibilities, and tasks associated with a specific job.
A document that outlines the duties, responsibilities, and conditions of a specific job.
A document outlining the duties, responsibilities, and conditions of a specific job.
A document outlining the duties, tasks, and responsibilities of a specific job.
Topics that use Job description
- Influences on business (AQA GCSE)
- Recruitment and selection of employees (AQA GCSE)
- People (OCR GCSE)
- Recruitment and selection (OCR GCSE)
- The role of human resources (OCR GCSE)
- Effective recruitment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Person specification
- External recruitment
- Internal recruitment
- Chain of Command
- Delegation
- Recruitment
- Span of Control
- Adapting the marketing mix to external pressures
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