JA Flashcards
JA
Sanchez & Levine 2011
Process to gain understanding of activities, goals, and requirements of job
Competency Modeling
Campion et al., 2011 KSAOs needed for effective performance (first was McClelland, 1973)
Critical incident technique
Flanagan 1954: to collect direct observations of human behavior to facilitate potential usefulness in solving practical problems
3 Major types of WA/JA
Brannick et al., 2007: requirements of the work, of the worker and the work context. Then you decide the method
Rater influences
Van Iddeking et al., 2005 21.6% and 29.1% of error variance in single-rater reliabilities of KSAOs
FJA
Fine 1951
PAQ
Position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
Meta of JA reliability
Dierdoff & Wilson 2003 Found raters of specific tasks had higher reliability than generalized, analysts had highest reliability
CM first proposed by?
McClelland 1973
Difference between JA vs CM
Shippman et al., 2000 broken down into breath, type of char studied, general use and methodological rigor
16 potential social and cog sources of inaccuracy
Morgeson & Campion 1997, updated to 4 broad in 2012 (social, self presentation, information processing of respondents and of the
Social influences
Normative pressures from the social environ like conformity pressures, grp polarization & self-presentation like impression mgmt, social desirability, demand effects.
Cognitive influences
B/c human is info processor w/limitations: info overload, heuristics, categorization. Can cause carelessness, extraneous/inadequate info, halo, leniency effects
4 building blocks of JA
Sanchez & Levine 2001
Type source, method, level, best methods: job eval = FJA or PAW, perform appraisal = critical incidents, selection/hiring = PAQ
Improving quality of JAs
Morgeson et al., 2016: focus on how respondent interacts. Examined decomposed vs holistic approaches, carelessness impacts holistic b/c raters aren’t engaging in controlled info processes
