job analysis

Influence of subject matter expert (SME) personality on job analysis ratings

Publication Type: 
Conference Paper
Authors: 
Waters S.D., Landers R.N., Brenckman N., Sackett P.R.
Publication Year: 
2007
Place Published: 
New York City
Secondary Title: 
22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Understanding What Works: Identifying Requirements Through Job Analysis

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What is Job Analysis? Organizations routinely invest considerable time, effort, and resources to select, develop, and maintain an effective workforce. For example, a recent report estimated that organizations spend over $100 billion annually on training initiatives. However, for such efforts to be successful, they must be clearly linked to critical job requirements. The techniques used to identify such requirements are known collectively as job analysis.

The typical job analysis seeks to answer two key questions:

ATF Job Analysis/Competency Studies and the Development of Promotion and Performance Evaluation Processes

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Since the Fall of 1998, HumRRO has been working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to design, develop, and implement several human capital programs. Many efforts were aimed to help ATF respond to a U.S. District Court directive which required that ATF implement a number of systemic changes in its human resource practices (e.g., promotions, training, details and other special assignments, awards, evaluations and discipline).

Developing a foundation for its competency-based education and certification initiatives (ALA)

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The mission of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) is to

  1. improve the quality of management in legal services organizations,
  2. promote and enhance the competence and professionalism of legal administrators and all members of the management team, and
  3. represent professional legal management and managers to the legal community and to the public at large.
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