ABSTRACT
Due in part to e orts by the U.S. Department of Labor to revise the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), considerable interest has recently been generated in the practice of using standardized pro les of general work behaviors (GWBs)—also termed generalized work activities (GWAs)—to describe jobs (e.g., Harvey, 1992; O’Leary, Rheinstein, & McCauley, 1989, 1990; Outerbridge, 1981; Rheinstein, McCauley, & O’Leary, 1989). e Department of Labor created the Advisory Panel for the Review of the DOT (APDOT) when it designed the DOT’s replacement, the Occupational Information Network (O*NET; e.g., Peterson, Mumford, Borman, Jeanneret, & Fleishman, 1999). e interim report of the advisory panel identi ed GWBs as “work behaviors that do not include highly occupation-speci c content, and [that] tend to occur across substantial numbers of di erent occupations” (APDOT, 1992, p. 10594).
