"This report summarizes the history of job evaluation and gives a critical review of the technical literature as a background for the Air Force job evaluation plan. The Air Force plan is described with the rationale for each phase. A discussion of unsolved problems includes an outline of research needed to discover solutions of these problems. An Appendix lists a 200-item bibliography with abstracts." -- page iii.

The analysis of the various components of human work is the most important approach to a systematic study of people at work. This approach is aimed at the examination of individual activities with respect to the role they play in the conflict of humanitarian, economic, and technical aspects of work. The main objective of this title, which was first published in 1989, was to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia who were interested in ergonomics and psychological aspects of job analysis. This title will be of particular interest to students of human resource management.