kvrad,
Making individuals sign employment contracts (which may include an outline JD) is understandable but rarely are these specific or critical enough to keep up-to-date.
Better to define and update each process-team's job descriptions which are otherwise known as procedures. These procedures also define and communicate individuals' roles, authorities and responsibilities (RAR). Monitoring and verification of competence to fulfill the RARs is far more valuable that any signature.
Usefully, the leaders may sign a document to delegate a defined amount of their authority to specific employees especially if this delegated authority could be seen by others as intrusive.
But, demanding that every employee signs his or her job description may be a crude response to a lack of trust between the managers and the managed. If so, this is the system weakness that needs the corrective action.
John
Making individuals sign employment contracts (which may include an outline JD) is understandable but rarely are these specific or critical enough to keep up-to-date.
Better to define and update each process-team's job descriptions which are otherwise known as procedures. These procedures also define and communicate individuals' roles, authorities and responsibilities (RAR). Monitoring and verification of competence to fulfill the RARs is far more valuable that any signature.
Usefully, the leaders may sign a document to delegate a defined amount of their authority to specific employees especially if this delegated authority could be seen by others as intrusive.
But, demanding that every employee signs his or her job description may be a crude response to a lack of trust between the managers and the managed. If so, this is the system weakness that needs the corrective action.
John