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A Factorial Approach to Job Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Clyde H. Coombs  and
George A. Satter
Clyde H. Coombs
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
George A. Satter
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Abstract

This is an experimental study of the application of factor analysis to a new domain—the formation of job families. Correlations between jobs are computed from the formula based on the number of common elements between two variables and the job analyses provide the basic data on the presence or absence of the elements. A first-order general factor and four common factors are obtained in a small sample of twenty occupations. Tentative interpretations are made and implications for job analysis and the formation of job families are pointed out.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1949 , pp. 33 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The analysis the results of which are reported here was made possible by the Bureau of Psychological Services, Institute for Human Adjustment, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan.

References

* Toynbee, Arnold J. A study of history. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946, p. 617.

† Shartle, Carroll L. Occupational information. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1946, p. 339.

‡ Cardall, Alfred J. A test for primary business interests based on a functional occupational classification. Educ. psychol. Meas., 1942, 2, 113-138.

* Peters, C. C. and Van Voorhis, W. R. Statistical procedures and their mathematical bases. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1940, p. 122.