Job Analysis/Classification

Our research in job analysis at Virginia Tech has focused primarily on the Common-Metric Questionnaire (CMQ), a standardized job analysis instrument that was developed by RJ back in 1987 to address many of the troubling limitations facing "first generation" PxQ-type "worker oriented" job analysis surveys (PAQ, PMPQ, PDQ, etc.) that he described in the Job Analysis chapter in Dunnette and Hough's (1991) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (volume 2).

NEW: I've added scans of the 1955 version of the DOT supplement that was the first document to describe a large sample (4,000) DOT occupations in terms of their estimated worker-trait requirements. Complete with pencil notes made by Sidney Fine, who loaned me his copy to scan. Remaining pages of ratings will be added soon. The parts I found most interesting are the descriptions of the process they followed, and the procedures and scales used when making the worker-trait ratings. And of course, the incredibly sexist language used at the time...

Our JA resources page lists a growing number of research reports, data files, etc., describing our research on JA topics. This research has examined a number of aspects of the CMQ, as well as the Department of Labor's O*NET project that has been advanced as the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.