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).

The CMQ has undergone a number of significant changes since the original paper-and-pencil format introduced in the 1980's, including a Windows version developed in 1993, culminating in the current web-based CMQ/Online (please feel free to use CMQ/Online to describe a job of interest to you, and download the basic job-description report)

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.