ABSTRACT

This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise on work design and job analysis practice and research in over 20 years. The handbook, dedicated to Sidney Gael, is the next generation of Gael’s successful Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry and Government, published by Wiley in 1988. It consists of four parts: Methods, Systems, Applications and Research/Innovations. Finally, a tightly integrated, user-friendly handbook, of interest to students, practitioners and researchers in the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management. 

Sample Chapter available:

Chapter 24, Training Needs Assessment by Eric A. Surface is available for download.

part I|167 pages

Work Analysis Methods

chapter 1|19 pages

Methodological Decisions in Work Analysis

A Theory of Effective Work Analysis in Organizations

chapter 6|34 pages

Analyzing Work Analysis Data

chapter 8|29 pages

Documenting Work Analysis Projects

A Review of Strategy and Legal Defensibility for Personnel Selection

part II|152 pages

Work Analysis Systems

chapter 10|16 pages

Cognitive Task Analysis

Methods for Capturing and Leveraging Expertise in the Workplace

chapter 13|16 pages

The Fleishman Job Analysis Survey

Development, Validation, and Applications

chapter 15|15 pages

Functional Job Analysis

chapter 16|21 pages

O*Net

The Occupational Information Network

chapter 17|18 pages

Context Analysis

part III|229 pages

Work Analysis Applications

chapter 18|19 pages

Using Job Analytic Information to (Re)Design Jobs

Best Practices and Methods

chapter 24|25 pages

Training Needs Assessment

Aligning Learning and Capability with Performance Requirements and Organizational Objectives

chapter 25|28 pages

Compensation

chapter 26|21 pages

Career Planning

The Role of Work Analysis in the Work of Your Organization's Career Development Manager

part IV|197 pages

Work Analysis Research and Innovation

chapter 29|37 pages

What and Who?

Research and Conclusions on Two of the Most Important Questions in Job Analysis

chapter 33|21 pages

Innovations in Team Task Analysis

Identifying Team-Based Task Elements, Tasks, and Jobs

chapter 37|7 pages

Concluding Thoughts

Challenges and Opportunities in Work Analysis