Competency modeling is an attempt to describe work and jobs in a broader, more comprehensive way. Some organizations are restructuring their performance-management systems (interviewing, selecting, developing, rewarding, recognizing) around competence models. (SK)

Explains the usefulness of critical incident technique for job analysis. Describes how themes are identified and coded using sample interviews. Data from a recent office occupations study are used to illustrate methods of data analysis. (Contains 22 references.) (SK)

Part of a series designed to facilitate better understanding of the biotechnology industry by the academic educational and research training sector, concentrates on careers in biotechnology. Discusses jobs that reflect the industry as a whole and can be extrapolated to the industry both nationally and internationally. (Author/MM)

Reviews general approaches to job analysis and considers methodological issues related to sampling and the development of rating scales used to measure and describe a profession or occupation. Evaluates the usefulness of different types of test plans and describes judgmental and empirical methods for using practice analysis data to help develop…

This paper proposes a matrix structure for training Supply Chain Management (SCM) professionals. It is an innovative programme structure that combines two approaches: cross-border and inter-organisational. It enables the students to comprehend complex and specific business environments and to understand the diverse nature of SCM systems in both…

Exploring career differences helps kids learn about themselves and the work world. (Editor)

Previous efforts to investigate the equivalence of rating sources for job analysis ratings have reported conflicting results. In the present research, correlational and generalizability analyses were conducted to examine the equivalency of rating sources for over 70 state civil service job classifications. Incumbent and supervisor ratings (N=697)…

This paper reviews 12 Title VII court cases litigated since 1978 to assess implications of recent professional and legal guidelines regarding criterion-related validity of paper and pencil tests used by employers to prove job relatedness. Major topics important to an understanding of predictor criterion, including procedural, and data analysis and…

Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) aides were paid on the basis of proportion of tasks completed on a simple checklist of job performance rather than on simply being physically present. This procedure was found to be effective for increasing the level of work performance. (EH)

This article concentrates on job evaluation and supplies the prospective teaching candidae with a unique rating scale for making better and more specific judgements about a particular employment position and his or her suitability to it. (Author)

Nineteen nonmetropolitan daily newspapers in Minnesota were surveyed to determine how reporters covered lower level courts. Data were collected in the following categories: demographic characteristics of the reporters, the courts they covered, the type of information they gathered and how, the sources they used, the problems they had with the…

As an aid to library administrators, professional staffs, and officials in making comparative evaluations of their own organization's position descriptions and in developing new position descriptions and classification specifications, this document describes 72 library-related positions and divides them into two major groups of classifications:…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE DETERMINATION OF TRAINING OBJECTIVES IS PRESENTED. SEVEN CATEGORIES ARE LISTED--(1) GENERAL RATIONALES, (2) SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, (3) JOB ANALYSIS, (4) ALLOCATION OF TRAINING, (5) TASK DESCRIPTION, (6) DETERMINATION OF KNOWLEDGES AND SKILLS, AND (7) DESCRIPTION OF OBJECTIVES. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE AS AD 448 363…

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…

The pilot study was designed to develop a system for analyzing and providing task inventories for carpentry curriculum development. An initial task inventory of 174 statements was constructed from available published sources, including only those tasks thought to be performed by incumbent workers in residential carpentry in Arizona. The tasks were…