Title

A Survey Of The Literature On Prediction Of Air Force Personnel Requirements

Description

A survey of methods for predicting personnel requirements for future Air Force weapon systems is presented with abstracts of 121 unclassified, professional documents. Emphasis is placed on identifying procedures for deriving personnel requirements information, and the supporting rationales. The current state of the art is evaluated and presented with implications for future research requirements. Conclusions from the study show that fairly thorough procedures exist for describing tasks and positions and for combining tasks into positions. However, no evidence was found of any systematic evaluation of this method. Estimating manpower requirements often has been done but only one report describes a procedure for doing this. Determining skill level requirements and criticality of tasks has received little methodological attention. Most attention has been directed toward the rating of skill levels rather than toward any objective determination of skill requirements. One exception provides a seven-point scale of operationally defined performance levels.. Like the other techniques found in this survey, this one has never been evaluated.

Date

1960

Index Abstract

Contrails only

Photo Quality

Not Needed

Report Number

WADD TR 60-493

Corporate Author

American Institute For Research

Laboratory

Behavioral Sciences Laboratory

Extent

388

Identifier

AD0244539

AD0244539

Access Rights

OTS

Distribution Classification

1

Contract

AF 33(616)-6427

DoD Project

7190

DoD Task

None Given

DTIC Record Exists

No

Distribution Change Authority Correspondence

None

Report Availability

Full text available

Date Issued

1960-07

Abstract

A survey of methods for predicting personnel requirements for future Air Force weapon systems is presented with abstracts of 121 unclassified, professional documents. Emphasis is placed on identifying procedures for deriving personnel requirements information, and the supporting rationales. The current state of the art is evaluated and presented with implications for future research requirements. Conclusions from the study show that fairly thorough procedures exist for describing tasks and positions and for combining tasks into positions. However, no evidence was found of any systematic evaluation of this method. Estimating manpower requirements often has been done but only one report describes a procedure for doing this. Determining skill level requirements and criticality of tasks has received little methodological attention. Most attention has been directed toward the rating of skill levels rather than toward any objective determination of skill requirements. One exception provides a seven-point scale of operationally defined performance levels.. Like the other techniques found in this survey, this one has never been evaluated.

Provenance

PROPERTY OF COOK RESEARCH LABORATORIESLIBRARY
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REC'D MAR 22 1962
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RECEIVEDJUL 1 - 1969THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY
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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYIIT LIBRARYFEB 1 1996GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONSDEPOSITORY 0146-A

Type

report

Creator

Jones, Edna M.

Fairman, Jean B.

Folley, John D., Jr.

Format

1 online resource

Subject

Aviation Personnel

Bibliographies

Job Analysis

Learning

Maintenance Personnel

Military Requirements

Military Training

Training

Publisher

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH : Behavioral Sciences Laboratory, Aerospace Medical Division, Wright Air Development Division, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force