Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo) - Step-by-Step Support for Successful Job and Work Analysis
1st Edition
Published in January 2012
92 pages
978-3-89967-760-7 (ISBN)
Description
What are the Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo)?
The Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo) are a tool kit of empirically tested methods and procedures for the creation of a requirement profile. The TAToo toolkit provides practitioners with a step-by-step guide to successful job and work analysis.
How is a job and work analysis performed using TAToo?
In the first step, "Collect", task descriptions, required knowledge skills and abilities, and descriptions of present and future work situations that are critical for success (critical incidents) are collected. Job experts from the individual company or organization describe the specific behavior of incumbents in critical situations. What they describe is the actual behavior demonstrated by both high-performers and low-performers in such critical situations.
In the second step, "Group", these job experts categorize the information collected in the first step according to similarities in the behavior patterns and assign each group of behavior-oriented descriptions a name or heading that characterizes one discrete requirement.
In the third step, "Assess", the job experts use standard rating scales to evaluate the collection of requirements created in the second step and their constituent behavior-oriented descriptions according to their importance and the extent to which they can be trained and compensated for. Only the requirements rated as very important and essential are then taken over into the final requirement profile.
How does TAToo support practitioners?
"Tool 1 - Collect" provides detailed and structured guides for a choice of three alternative methods for the data collection: questionnaire, interview, and workshop. The experience gathered from the empirical testing of the tool kit helps practitioners to make sound decisions about the choice of the most appropriate data collection method for their specific purposes.
"Tool 2 - Group" provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to running a workshop in which job experts group the information and descriptions collected in Tool 1 into requirements.
"Tool 3 - Assess" helps job experts to rate the requirements and behavior-oriented descriptions according to their importance and the extent to which they can be trained and compensated for, and to compile the very important and essential requirements into a requirement profile.
Requirement profiles created with the TAToo tool kit have been proven to comply with currently applicable standards and guidelines from both theory and practice.
What can you use the requirement profile created with TAToo for?
- Requirement profiles created with TAToo can serve prospective job applicants as a "realistic job preview". This increases the proportion of potentially suitable candidates among those who actually apply for the job.
- Requirement profiles created with TAToo are the basis for rational, fair and optimally efficient personnel selection and personnel development.
- Employees can assess at any time to what extent they meet the requirements of their jobs. Staff appraisals then become an interchange between two persons who are both equally well informed about the requirements of the job in question.
- Requirement profiles created with TAToo are ideal management tools.
Who can and should use TAToo?
- All businesses and organizations that set great store in having rational, fair and efficient assessment of job applicants and incumbents.
- Recruitment consultants.
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Content
1 - Contents [Seite 6]
2 - 1 Introduction [Seite 8]
3 - 2 Theoretical and methodological principles [Seite 10]
3.1 - 2.1 Definition of job and work analysis [Seite 10]
3.2 - 2.2 Classification of job and work analyses [Seite 11]
3.3 - 2.3 Methodological approaches for job and work analyses [Seite 12]
3.3.1 - 2.3.1 Necessary decisions during the planning of job and work [Seite 13]
3.3.2 - 2.3.2 Behavior-oriented collection of requirements - the Critical Incident Technique [Seite 14]
3.4 - 2.4 Design recommendations for job and work analyses from academic research and practice [Seite 16]
3.4.1 - 2.4.1 Recommendations regarding persons involved [Seite 18]
3.4.2 - 2.4.2 Recommendations regarding content and degree of detail [Seite 19]
3.4.3 - 2.4.3 Recommendations regarding time perspective [Seite 20]
3.4.4 - 2.4.4 Recommendations regarding choice of method [Seite 21]
4 - 3 The Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo) [Seite 23]
4.1 - 3.1 Starting point and principles for the construction of TAToo [Seite 23]
4.2 - 3.2 Definition of terms [Seite 24]
4.3 - 3.3 Construction stages of TAToo [Seite 26]
4.4 - 3.4 The sequence of a job and work analysis using TAToo [Seite 27]
5 - 4 Discussion [Seite 32]
5.1 - 4.1 On the choice of methods in "Tool 1 - Collect": workshop, interview and questionnaire [Seite 33]
5.2 - 4.2 Quality criteria of TAToo [Seite 36]
5.2.1 - 4.2.1 Objectivity as interrater agreement in the evaluation of the [Seite 36]
5.2.2 - 4.2.2 Validity [Seite 36]
5.2.3 - 4.2.3 Economy and utility [Seite 38]
5.3 - 4.3 Instructions for grouping behavior patterns to requirements [Seite 40]
5.4 - 4.4 Summary and outlook [Seite 41]
6 - 5 Bibliography [Seite 42]
7 - 6 Materials for the implementation of TAToo [Seite 48]
7.1 - 6.1 "Tool 1 - Collect" [Seite 50]
7.1.1 - 6.1.1 Questionnaire [Seite 50]
7.1.2 - 6.1.2 Structured interview guide [Seite 57]
7.1.3 - 6.1.3 Structured workshop guide [Seite 71]
7.2 - 6.2 "Tool 2 - Group": Structured workshop guide [Seite 83]
7.3 - 6.3 "Tool 3 - Assess": Questionnaire template [Seite 92]
2 - 1 Introduction [Seite 8]
3 - 2 Theoretical and methodological principles [Seite 10]
3.1 - 2.1 Definition of job and work analysis [Seite 10]
3.2 - 2.2 Classification of job and work analyses [Seite 11]
3.3 - 2.3 Methodological approaches for job and work analyses [Seite 12]
3.3.1 - 2.3.1 Necessary decisions during the planning of job and work [Seite 13]
3.3.2 - 2.3.2 Behavior-oriented collection of requirements - the Critical Incident Technique [Seite 14]
3.4 - 2.4 Design recommendations for job and work analyses from academic research and practice [Seite 16]
3.4.1 - 2.4.1 Recommendations regarding persons involved [Seite 18]
3.4.2 - 2.4.2 Recommendations regarding content and degree of detail [Seite 19]
3.4.3 - 2.4.3 Recommendations regarding time perspective [Seite 20]
3.4.4 - 2.4.4 Recommendations regarding choice of method [Seite 21]
4 - 3 The Task-Analysis-Tools (TAToo) [Seite 23]
4.1 - 3.1 Starting point and principles for the construction of TAToo [Seite 23]
4.2 - 3.2 Definition of terms [Seite 24]
4.3 - 3.3 Construction stages of TAToo [Seite 26]
4.4 - 3.4 The sequence of a job and work analysis using TAToo [Seite 27]
5 - 4 Discussion [Seite 32]
5.1 - 4.1 On the choice of methods in "Tool 1 - Collect": workshop, interview and questionnaire [Seite 33]
5.2 - 4.2 Quality criteria of TAToo [Seite 36]
5.2.1 - 4.2.1 Objectivity as interrater agreement in the evaluation of the [Seite 36]
5.2.2 - 4.2.2 Validity [Seite 36]
5.2.3 - 4.2.3 Economy and utility [Seite 38]
5.3 - 4.3 Instructions for grouping behavior patterns to requirements [Seite 40]
5.4 - 4.4 Summary and outlook [Seite 41]
6 - 5 Bibliography [Seite 42]
7 - 6 Materials for the implementation of TAToo [Seite 48]
7.1 - 6.1 "Tool 1 - Collect" [Seite 50]
7.1.1 - 6.1.1 Questionnaire [Seite 50]
7.1.2 - 6.1.2 Structured interview guide [Seite 57]
7.1.3 - 6.1.3 Structured workshop guide [Seite 71]
7.2 - 6.2 "Tool 2 - Group": Structured workshop guide [Seite 83]
7.3 - 6.3 "Tool 3 - Assess": Questionnaire template [Seite 92]
