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EVALUATION OF TASK AND JOB SKILL LINKAGE JUDGMENTS USED TO DEVELOP TEST SPECIFICATIONS
Author(s) -
HUGHES GARRY L.,
PRIEN ERICH P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1989.tb00658.x
Subject(s) - job analysis , task (project management) , psychology , job performance , test (biology) , job design , variety (cybernetics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , personnel selection , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , job satisfaction , artificial intelligence , statistics , management , paleontology , mathematics , economics , biology
The research on job analysis judgments, such as “time spent,” has been relatively limited, particularly with reference to external criteria remote from the job analysis operation. The more complex job analysis judgment linking a job skill to specific tasks or duties has not been systematically examined. While it would appear that a simple scaling of importance of a skill for a task or duty or a retranslation judgment would suffice, the fact is that a single job skill may be a prerequisite for performance in a variety of tasks, and any one task may require multiple skills of varying levels for effective performance. With a multiple assignment of tasks to job skills, the evaluation becomes considerably more difficult. In the present study, a sequence of statistical evaluations was conducted to examine, first, the reliability of the subject matter expert (SME) panel's association of tasks and job skills and, second, the factor structure of the task by job skill relationship. The results are discussed with reference to developing selection test specifications and test budgets.