Following the collapse of Enron, its beleaguered auditor, the major accounting firm Arthur Andersen (AA) , had to sell off parts of its practice to former competitors. The HR professionals at the acquiring firms would use job analysis to achieve all but which of the following goals?

A) compare job content of AA jobs with the content of their firm's jobs
B) identifying which jobs with identical content should be compensated differently
C) identify the competencies needed to perform the jobs
D) identifying redundant jobs that could be eliminated
E) all of the above are functions of job analysis in a merger and acquisition context.

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Darby Dominey · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  Job analysis is used to understand job content, identify competencies, and recognize redundant positions, not to determine compensation differences for identical job content.

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