ABSTRACT
Out of these and related considerations has arisen a new approach to the evaluation of potential employees based on the concept of job matching, that is, comparing the functional capacities of the individual against the physical demands of the job. Although the concept is beginning to be appreciated, and the approach applied, there is little in the way of definitive knowledge among those most in need of it. There is, however, an increasing demand in industry, in the teaching institutions and within the health professions for information as to the
nature of the concept and the methodology of its application. The sparse literature available is widely distributed in journals about industrial psychology, occupational health, rehabilitation, ergonomics, kinesiology and personnel and human resources research, along with occasional articles in trade and business magazines, and even more esoterically in the limited publications of sundry institutes, government departments and the like.
