This manual contains guidelines for editing task statements written according to the principles and techniques of functional job analysis to be used in preparing input data to the National Task Bank. It does not include any descriptive matter about the task bank, which was developed to provide a model for State and local public welfare agencies…

The National Task Bank of 547 tasks in the public welfare field was developed from tasks written by eight states and by the Social and Rehabilitation Service. This document describes the background and development of the bank and outlines the procedures used. The task bank illustrates 13 functional cagegories of data, people, and things for…

This document describes how the plan for a National Task Bank evolved as part of an effort to encourage State and local public welfare agencies to adopt new approaches to staff planning and utilization. The task bank is an outgrowth of the application of systems approach and functional job analysis to agency management. Individualized data banks…

The 1975 supplement to the National Task Bank consists of 550 additional tasks in the field of human service selected and edited from task analysis projects in a number of States. The supplement is organized in the same format and numbered sequentially with the original edition published in 1973. The use, organization, and development of the Bank,…