KSA Job Analysis & Competency Mapping 5

Question 1

In a competency proficiency scale, what distinguishes 'Level 3 - Proficient' from 'Level 2 - Developing'?

Accepted Answer

The employee can independently apply the competency and may begin to guide others

Answer

Proficiency scales typically progress from awareness/learning through independent application to expert/leadership levels, with Level 3 indicating autonomous competent performance.

Question 2

Which job analysis approach uses a hierarchical decomposition, breaking a job's main goal into sub-goals and then into individual tasks?

Accepted Answer

Hierarchical task analysis (HTA)

Answer

Hierarchical task analysis decomposes a job into goals, sub-goals, and tasks in a tree structure, making it especially useful for training design and error analysis.

Question 3

The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) require job analysis primarily to support:

Accepted Answer

Demonstrating the job-relatedness of selection procedures when adverse impact is found

Answer

The Uniform Guidelines require employers to conduct job analysis to validate selection tools and demonstrate job-relatedness when a selection procedure produces adverse impact against a protected group.

Question 4

When building a competency model using the behavioral event interview (BEI) method, interviewers ask participants to:

Accepted Answer

Describe past situations in detail where they performed effectively or ineffectively

Answer

BEI uses a retrospective storytelling approach (STAR-based) to elicit rich behavioral data that reveals the competencies underlying high performance.

Question 5

A job analysis that finds a task is performed 'rarely' but has 'very high' consequence if done incorrectly should result in:

Accepted Answer

Retaining the task as a critical KSA requirement despite low frequency

Answer

High consequence tasks remain critical even when performed infrequently because errors can be catastrophic, so the associated KSAs must be assessed in selection.

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KSA Job Analysis & Competency Mapping 5