Functional Job Analysis (FJA) analyses any job using three essential elements: (1) people (important interpersonal relationships on the job), (2) data (obtaining, using, and transforming data in aid of job performance), (3) things (physical machinery, resources, and the environment). Each of these three dimensions is then rated by level of complexity and importance with respect to the job being analyzed.
Functional Job Analysis is a method for classifying jobs similar to the Department of Labor job analysis but additionally taking into account the extent to which instructions, reasoning, judgment, and verbal facility are necessary for performing the job tasks. are standardized method for rating, classifying, and comparing virtually every kind of job based on data, people, and things.