Ability
03.26.09
Ability is an individual’s capacity to perform the various tasks in a job. men aren’t equal in abilities. Everyone has strengths and weakness in terms of ability that make him or relativity superior or inferior to others in performing task or abilities. An individual’s overall abilities are made up to skills: intellectual and physical. Intellectual abilities are those needed to perform mental activities. IQ test are designated to ascertain one’s intellectual abilities.
Jobs differ in the demands they place on incumbents to use their intelligence. Generally speaking, the higher an individual rises in an organizational hierarchy, the more general intelligence and verbal abilities will be necessary to perform the job successfully doing less skilled and more standardized jobs in the lower part of the organization. Jobs in which success demands stamina, manual dexterity, leg strength, or similar talents require management to identify an employee’s physical capabilities.