CCP Job Analysis and Documentation 3

Question 1

Which job analysis approach focuses on the behaviors workers use rather than the tasks they perform, making it more transferable across organizations?

Accepted Answer

Worker-oriented analysis

Answer

Worker-oriented job analysis identifies the human behaviors, attributes, and characteristics required to perform work, which are more generalizable across contexts.

Question 2

The critical incident technique (CIT) is most useful in job analysis for:

Accepted Answer

Identifying behaviors that distinguish effective from ineffective performance

Answer

CIT collects examples of especially effective or ineffective job behaviors to highlight which actions truly matter for performance.

Question 3

A compensable factor is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A job characteristic that an organization values and is willing to pay for

Answer

Compensable factors are dimensions of job content—such as skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions—that the organization recognizes as bases for pay.

Question 4

Which of the following is the primary advantage of using a structured questionnaire over interviews in job analysis?

Accepted Answer

It can be administered to many incumbents simultaneously, improving statistical reliability

Answer

Structured questionnaires can be distributed to large samples of incumbents simultaneously, producing quantitative data that improves reliability and statistical comparability.

Question 5

In functional job analysis (FJA), worker functions are organized along three hierarchies. Which set correctly identifies those hierarchies?

Accepted Answer

Data, people, and things

Answer

FJA, developed by Sidney Fine, classifies worker functions along three hierarchies: data, people, and things, each with increasing levels of complexity.

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