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Download full textDeNisi, Angelo S.; McCormick, Ernest J. – 1974
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a structured job analysis procedure that provides for the analysis of jobs in terms of each of 187 job elements, these job elements being grouped into six divisions: information input, mental processes, work output, relationships with other persons, job context, and other job characteristics. Two…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Graphs, Job Analysis, Occupational Clusters
PERKINS, EDWARD A., JR.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO IDENTIFY CLUSTERS OF TASKS PERFORMED BY A COMPREHENSIVE SAMPLE OF OFFICE EMPLOYEES WORKING IN FIVE OFFICE-SIZE CATEGORIES IN 12 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN WASHINGTON STATE. QUESTIONNAIRES LISTING 599 OFFICE TASKS AND VALIDATED BY INTERVIEWS WITH 286 OFFICE WORKERS AND SUPERVISORS AND BY A JURY OF…
Descriptors: Employment Statistics, Job Analysis, Occupational Clusters, Office Occupations
McCormick, Ernest J. – 1974
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a job analysis instrument consisting of 187 job elements organized into six divisions. The PAQ was used in the eight studies summarized in this final report. The studies were: (1) ratings of the attribute requirements of PAQ job elements, (2) a series of principal components analyses of these attribute…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis, Job Satisfaction, Military Personnel
Peer reviewedTaylor, L. R. – Personnel Psychology, 1978
Seventy-six insurance company jobs were analyzed by 203 raters in an effort to assess the potential usefulness of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) as a job analysis device to be employed in a more extensive, company-wide research program. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Occupational Clusters, Personnel Evaluation
Peer reviewedTaylor, L. R.; Colbert, G. A. – Personnel Psychology, 1978
Research is presented on the construction of job families based on Position Analysis Questionnaire data. The data were subjected to a component analysis. Results were interpreted as sufficiently encouraging to proceed with analyses of validity generalization within the job families. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Job Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Occupational Clusters, Personnel Selection
Peer reviewedCornelius, Edwin T., III; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1979
The purpose of this paper was to compare job classification decisions that are reached by using three different types of job analysis information: task-oriented, worker-oriented, and abilities-oriented. Practical implications of the findings of the study are presented. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Job Analysis
SJORGREN, DOUGLAS; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER COMMON BEHAVIORS COULD BE IDENTIFIED ACROSS OCCUPATIONS TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR CURRICULUM BUILDING. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH INCUMBENTS IN 47 AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS AND 36 OCCUPATIONS IN THE METAL FABRICATING INDUSTRY FOR A TOTAL OF 466 INTERVIEWS IN COLORADO AND NEBRASKA. THE INTERVIEW…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Curriculum Development, Employees, Factor Analysis
Ashley, William L.; Ammerman, Harry L. – 1978
The feasibility of classifying occupational tasks as a basis for understanding better the occupational transferability of job skills was examined. To show general skill relationships among occupations, 5 classification schemes were applied to 50 selected task statements for each of 12 occupations. Ratings by five reasonably knowledgeable people…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Job Analysis, Job Skills
Debons, Anthony; And Others – 1980
The first phase of a three-phase program, this study determined the functions entailed in information work and identified the number of individuals who exercise these functions in a survey of 1,193 establishments in state and local government, industry, and academia. The survey revealed that there were over 1.64 million information professionals…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Job Analysis, Occupational Clusters, Occupational Information
Peer reviewedColbert, G. A.; Taylor, L. R. – Personnel Psychology, 1978
This is part three of a three-part series concerned with the empirical development of homogeneous families of insurance company jobs based on data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). This part involves validity generalizations within the job families which resulted from the previous research. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Job Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Occupational Clusters
Drauden, Gail M. – 1976
A job analysis survey was done on 39 entry-level professional classes (e.g. personnel officer, social worker, rehabilitation counselor, research analyst, accountant, computer programmer) to discover statistical factors on which the classes could be scored and to cluster the classes on the basis of these factor scores. A job analysis questionnaire…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Data Collection, Entry Workers, Factor Analysis
Haffner, Alden N.; And Others – 1971
As a basis for providing meaningful job opportunities for the disadvantaged in health occupations, this study has investigated the current number, duties, and education and training of ancillary optometric personnel and the projected need for such employees. The study further describes the type of formal training program required to meet the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Ancillary Services, Career Education, Disadvantaged
Larson, Milton E.; Blake, Duane L. – 1969
The primary objective of this institute was to develop facility in using the process of zoned analysis for curriculum construction in vocational education. Zoned analysis was defined as a method of graphic delineation by which factors involved in an organizational or research project may be systematically arranged in an orderly sequence. The…
Descriptors: Charts, Conceptual Schemes, Conference Reports, Content Analysis
