A factor analysis of job activities

Abstract

Using a job activities checklist, 250 jobs selected from 5,000 for which there were job descriptions in a large steel producing firm were studied and described mathematically in terms of 14 dimensions or attributes. 8 graduate students made independent analyses of 2 to 5 jobs a piece and their results were compared with those of the investigator to determine reliability. It was satisfactory. "… work activities can be identified or measured and… the variety of human work activities may be organized with greater simplicity and economy in terms of a smaller number of relatively independent dimensions." From Psyc Abstracts 36:05:5LF89P. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)