A process of identifying and determining in detail the particular job duties and requirements and the importance of these duties for a given job. Analysis is conducted on the job, rather than on the person doing the job. It breaks the complexity of a person's job into elements, duties and tasks. It also identifies and organizes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to perform the job correctly. There are several methods This is accomplished by gathering task activities and requirements by observation, interviews, task inventories, checklists, work logs, or other recording methods. See also Task Analysis.