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While a job description is, mundanely, a statement of employment responsibilities and requirements (“employment contract” is an even less inspiring definition), more to its value and importance would be to define it as: the essence of the relationship between a manager and an employee.

A job description defines the results an employee needs to accomplish in order to achieve the organization purpose.

As with any relationship, the nature of the manager-employee conjoint effort needs to be clear so that both parties are comfortable in their bond, and each can live up to the mutual commitment.

Merely assembling job information as quickly as is possible from pre-ordained lists of tasks and competencies, especially in behavioral terms, just to fulfill an HR requirement to have a job description in place diminishes the value of creative communication and sets the stage for a bland relationship.