Job Analysis Of A Fitness Director At Good Life Health Club

Overview of Good Life Health Club

Discuss about the Job Announcement Analyse Of Educational Technology.

The process of job analysis includes the identification and determination of the responsibilities and duties of a person holding the job post. The analysis gives a critical review of the job role and its importance from data collection about the job role. Job analysis includes interview from a superior and an incumbent describing the task and behaviour of the job role(Yoouet al. 2013.). A job analysis is done to get information about the job role and its importance in the market. An analysis gives idea about the requirement and competencies about the job post. It establishes an idea about the job and helps people to assess the job role (Kang and Ritzhaupt 2015). The discussion will analyze the job role of a fitness director of Good Life Health Club. The study will critically analyze and compare the job role with relevant sources taken from the internal sources of the organization.

The paragraph will discuss about the job role of the fitness director. The Good life Health Clubs is a popular and growing health centre in Australia. They target to expand across the country and convince the country people to lead to a healthy life. They plan to reduce disease and illness and create a healthier lifestyle for the people.They tend to provide good lifestyle and well-being for their clients. They are using advanced equipments and technologies for the clients and tend to provide best services to the clients. The fitness director of this organization requires to manage the staffs of the organization; he develops the fitness programmes with respect to the healthcare facilities. He is the director and thus he faces all the reporting and issues.The director is responsible for creating programs and developing skills for increasing the demand for fitness in the society. The role of the director is to instruct the staff and facility for proper working and maintenance. He is also responsible for the equipments required in the fitness centre. The director is also responsible for the exercise and physical activities that the clients will be doing. The director has to monitor whether the instructors are instructing correct advice to the clients or not. He has to keep a note on the personalised training programs for few clients and check whether their requirements are met or not.

The role of the director is to conduct the work in the fitness centre. He plays a vital role in conducting the activities and monitoring the staffs. The director is responsible for every single decision and action in the organisation. He has to keep a note on the activities and exercises of the clients as their requirements. The clients might have few specifications for workouts. As the incumbent is unaware of the organization structure, he must be introduced to organization rules and systems. The incumbent has to develop skills to conduct the staffs and become familiar with them (Ghobakhloo and Hong Tang 2013). They have clients who come only to meet few physical issues met by them; this might include muscle pain, cramps, overweight, fatty belly,extra fat on specified areas. There are clients who come to reduce only the specific areas which has to be reduced by special workouts. The incumbent has to deal with these clients and suggest them as per requirement. The director has to keep a note that the clients are provided with required service and are satisfied (Cheng et al. 2013). The director has to deal with daily issues faced by the staff, clients. He has to create a place of confidence and stability to increase the client, run the organization, prevent any chaos and focus on the well-being of the clients. Thus, the incumbent will be solely responsible for the well-management of the organization and must know how to face the issues in the organization.

Role and Responsibilities of Fitness Director

The director must have sufficient knowledge about the physical activities and exercises that are conducted in the centre. Being a director he must be well aware about the required steps needed to be taken or betterment of health and fitness standard of an individual. The supervisor has to inform the incumbent about the working and role of the director. The director must know about the diet plans necessary to meet the client’s issues. He must be well aware of the restrictions that the clients must follow. At the same time being a director he must know how to manage the workers working under him. He must maintain a good conduct and communication term with them. He has to face the problems of the workers and take necessary steps to solve them. The director should also know marketing and public relation skills to increase the clients of the organisation (Bakker and Demerouti 2014). He has to build a relation with the clients and motivate them to continue their workout. The supervisor should make the incumbent informed about the management and role to meet the requirement of a director.

The job oriented analysis is for the incumbent who does not have any idea about the organization. He has to be introduced to the workers and clients of the organization. The director has to know his duties in the organization. He must get aware of the working pattern of the organization. On the other side job competency analysis includes the role specification of the director. The director is expected to know about the management skills, wellness processes, public relation management, staff management (Chiu, Balkundiand Weinberg2017).

The data was collected from the Fitness director and Managing director. The data collection method was conducted by interview.

The method was appropriate because it included a detailed interview of the incumbent and the supervisor in the organization. The other method for collecting data could have been influence confusing and irrelevant as the person who are in the post would know better than anyone else in the organization.The data was accurate and helped to analyze the role of the post in a better way. The method includes a detailed investigation about the job role, skills and knowledge required to fill the post (Freivalds and Niebel 2013). The analysis highlighted the requirement for the skills for a Fitness director. the incumbent must be well aware about the role and the supervisor should analyze him on that basis. The interview clearly stated if any issues are faced by the posts in the organization, it also showed a detailed interview on the posts showing the risk, impact of the organization on the post (Miles,Huberman and Saldana 2013). This method for data collection was qualitative and gave accurate data instead of providing trash results. The results can be relied on and on this basis recommendations can also be given.

Knowledge and Skills Required for Fitness Director

The supervisor and the incumbent were interviewed as they were the mentioned posts that played a vital role for this post. Apart from them no one else was interviewed because others would not have a clear idea about the post and information related to it. Hence, to avoid any trash information , the survey was done on the Managing director and the Fitness director. The information that been collected are completely based on true experience faced by the directors.

TheManaging director is suggested to maintain a good term with the fitness director as he will be solely responsible for the client satisfaction and company image in the market. The managing director has a superior power yet he does not have skilled knowledge about fitness and cannot recommend the clients as per their requirement. The managing director can increase his knowledge in fitness life, that might help him to serve the clients in emergency situation.

The fitness director must keep in mind his role in the organization. The director should be well aware of the company working system. He must have expertise knowledge about staff management, organizational behaviour, service quality for internal management. He should also keep good knowledge about the marketing strategies, advertisement, demand creation for the organization in the market. The director must have a strong hold on the staff and regulate the instructions given by the instructors, he should personally meet the demand of the premium clients and critical issues.

Conclusion:

Thus, it can be concluded with the note that job analysis is required in every field. The requirement for job analysis is very important as the analysis clears the job role and demand in the market. The role of the employee is clearly mentioned in the analysis, along with which the impact and importance are also discussed in job analysis. The study has shown the job analysis of a fitness director of a reputed organization. The organization is reputed among the Australian citizen’s and hence the director has an important role in the organization. The director is solely responsible for the staff management, operations of the organization, client satisfaction, business expansion of the organization. The fitness director has to report to the management director who supervises the work of the fitness director. The study has shown a clear analysis on the job role of the management director and the fitness director along with their role in the company.

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