Job Analysis Resources

JA-Related Links

• Sign-on to an email-based discussion "list" for job analysis and job classification related topics if you're interested.
  
• ONET Abilities questionnaire. The scales used in the O*NET data collection survey for ability requirements (it, and the other surveys, are in PDF format). The Abilities questionnaire is often hard to find on the official O*NET site, so it's provided here for your convenience.
  
• ONET Skills questionnaire, ONET Knowledge questionnaire, ONET GWA questionnaire. These other O*NET surveys are easier to find on their site, but you can download them here as well.
  

JA-Related Papers

Listed below are a sampling of the research papers we have produced over the past few years. If you're looking for copies of other papers we have presented that are not listed, contact me and I'll try to get you what you need. If you have problems opening these files, get the updated version of Adobe's Acrobat reader.

• SIOP 2007 papers presented in NYC
  
  • Harvey, R. J., Aguinis, H., & Gibson, S. G. (2007, April). Impact of IRT-based top-score banding on ASVAB minority selection ratios . Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York
    
  • Harvey, R. J., Aguinis, H., & Wagner, T. (2007, April). Using IRT to produce more accurate and wider test-score bands . Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York .
    
  • Harvey, R. J. (2007, April). Five things we need to know about job analysis . In Wilson , M. (Chair), The road ahead: Job analysis research and practice. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York .
    
    
• SIOP 2006 papers presented in Dallas
  
  • Harvey, R. J., & Wagner, T. A. (2006 May). Does gender moderation in job-component validity make a bottom-line difference? In Wilson , M. (Chair), Making ivory-tower job analysis useful in the real world. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas.
    
  • Thomas, L., A., & Harvey, R. J. (2006, May). Using CMQ/2 work dimensions to facilitate military occupational exploration. In Wilson , M. (Chair), Making ivory-tower job analysis useful in the real world. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas.
    
    
• SIOP 2005 papers presented in LA in April 2005
  
  • Harvey, R. J., Wilson, M. A., & Hansen, R. L. (2005, April). Person-fit indices for detecting CPI faking by police officers . In Russell, S. (Chair), Examining invariance using IRT: Applications and new developments . Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles . Friday 1:30
    
  • Harvey, R. J. (2005, April). IRT strategies for identifying rater quality in job analysis ratings. In VanIddekinge, C (Chair), Group differences in job analysis ratings. Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles . Sunday 10:30
    
  • Wagner, T. A., & Harvey, R. J. (2005, April). JCV predicting DOT worker-trait requirements from CMQ job analysis ratings . Paper submitted to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles. Sat 4:30
    
    
• SIOP 2004 papers: presented at the SIOP conference in Chicago:
  
  • Harvey, R. J. (2004, April). Empirical foundations for the Things-Data-People taxonomy of work. In Fleishman, E. A. (Chair), Things, Data, and People: Fifty years of a seminal theory. Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago. Supplemental appendix one (first order 78-factor CMQ loadings) and two (43-factor alternative) for paper.
    
  • Fine, S. A., Harvey, R. J, & Cronshaw, S. F. (2004, April). FJA strategies for addressing O*NET limitations in a post-DOT environment. In Fleishman, E. A. (Chair), Things, Data, and People: Fifty years of a seminal theory. Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.
    
  • Harvey, R. J., & Hollander, E. (2004, April). Benchmarking rWG interrater agreement indices: Let's drop the .70 rule-of-thumb. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.
    
  • Harvey, R. J. (2004, April). Quantifying job analysis rater quality using IRT appropriateness indices. In Ployhart, R, & Ford, D. (Chairs), Individual and subgroup differences on job analysis and competency ratings. Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.
    
  • Craig, S. B., & Harvey, R. J. (2004, April). Using CAT to reduce administration time in 360° performance assessment. In Craig, B. (Chair), 360, The next generation: Innovations in multisource performance assessment. Symposium to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.(OK, so maybe it's not really job analysis...)
    
  • Gibson, S. G., Harvey, R. J., & Quintela, Y (2004, April). Holistic versus decomposed ratings of general dimensions of work activity. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago. (.pdf file, 711KB)
    
  • Wagner, T. A., & Harvey, R. J. (2004, April). Job-component validation using CMQ and O*NET: Assessing the additivity assumption. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.
    
• Harvey (2003). Applicability of binary IRT models to job analysis data. In Meade, A. (Chair), Applications of IRT for Measurement in Organizations. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando. (Powerpoint slides from SIOP symposium presentation)
  
  
• SIOP 2002 papers. In Wilson, M. A. (Chair), The O*NET: Mend it, or end it? Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Toronto.
  
  
  • Robert J. Harvey, Virginia Tech, Eran Hollander, Virginia Tech, Assessing Interrater Agreement in the O*NET
    
    
  • Shanan Gibson, East Carolina University, Holistic versus Decomposed Rating of O*NET Dimensions
    
    
  • Eran Hollander, Virginia Tech, Robert J. Harvey, Virginia Tech, Generalizability Theory Analysis of Item-Level O*NET Database Ratings
    
    
  • Eran Hollander, Virginia Tech, Robert J. Harvey, Virginia Tech, Comparison of O*NET Holistic versus Graphic Rating Formats
    
    
• Harvey & Wilson (2000). (preprint). Yes Virginia, there is an objective reality in job analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 829-854. (preprint).
  
  
• Harvey (1999). Dr. Competencylove:or, How I learned to stop worrying and love “competencies". Invited presentation on the use of structured job analysis methods to address issues involved in competency modeling for the North Carolina Industrial/Organizational Psychologists Association (March, 1999), given at the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro. BIG FILE -- 2.2 MB
  
  
• Harvey & Wilson (1998). Monte Carlo baselines for interrater agreement when rating KSA requirements: How much agreement is 'enough'? In R. J. Harvey (Chair), Measurement issues in job analysis: Good news and bad news. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, St. Louis. Powerpoint slides.
  
  
• Brown & Harvey (1996). Job-component validation using the MBTI and the Common-Metric Questionnaire (CMQ). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego.
  
  
• Harvey, Wilson, & Blunt (1994). A comparison of rational/holistic versus empirical/decomposed methods of identifying and rating general work behaviors. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Nashville.
  
  
• Harvey (1994). Methodologies, objectives, and issues involved in identifying occupational clusters using skills-based data. Invited paper prepared for the US Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration). (Word for Windows 6 format; 96K)
• Harvey (1993). Research monograph: The development of the CMQ. Monograph describing the development and field-testing of the Common Metric Questionnaire (CMQ). (Word for Windows 6 format; 113K)

Data Files

The following data files may be of interest to researchers and practitioners in job analysis.

• The Job Element Inventory (JEI). Full text of the JEI (Cornelius & Hakel, 1978), a simplified worker-oriented job analysis instrument that has a much lower reading level than the PAQ (e.g., see Harvey, Friedman, Hakel, & Cornelius, 1988). (Word for Windows 6 format, 45K)