The job description might be broadened to form a person specification or may be known as Terms Of Reference Roles and responsibilities A job description may include relationships with other people in the organization: Supervisory level, managerial requirements, and relationships with other colleagues. Goals A job description need not be limited to explaining the current situation, or work that is currently expected; it may also set out goals for what might be achieved in future. Limitations
Job descriptions may not be suitable for some senior managers as they should have the freedom to take the initiative and find fruitful new directions; •Job descriptions may be too inflexible in a rapidly-changing organization, for instance in an area subject to rapid technological change; •Other changes in job content may lead to the job description being out of date; •The process that an organization uses to create job descriptions may not be optimal.