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Dear OB colleagues,

I'm currently putting together a survey for a new type of profession
(social media and community managers). My feeling is that the tasks
these professionals carry out differ quite substantially across
organizations. In order to get a better idea of what it is they are
doing, I'd like to include a task inventory and checked the much cited
work by Harvey (1991), but the procedures offered therein seem too
time-consuming for my purpose. I was thinking of listing and ranking the
10 most common activities (activity 1 being the most frequently carried
out activity, for example) and assigning them some relative percentage
of time (activity one takes 25% of the individual's time, for example).
Are any of you aware of a (tested) measure/instrument that could help me
do this? Please feel free to point me to examples you're familiar with.

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards,

David

Harvey, R. J. 1991. Job analysis. In M. D. Dunnette & L. M. Hough
(Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, Vol. 2
(2nd ed.): 71–163. Palo Alto, CA, US: Consulting Psychologists Press.

--
Dr. David Wagner
Post Doc/Assistant Professor
Digital Strategy & Innovation
German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH (GGS)

currently
Visiting Professor
McGill University
Samuel Bronfman Building, office 552
1001 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1G5
Canada

Work +1 514 398 3321
Cell +1 514 576 4795
Web http://www.kpsquared.org/

German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH
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D-74076 Heilbronn
Sitz Heilbronn, Registergericht Stuttgart HRB 109182
Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Zupancic, Prof. Dr. Tomas Bayon

David,

You might find the Handbook of Work Analysis edited by Wilson, Bennett, Gibson and Alliger useful.

Lois

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Subject: [OB-LIST] Short Task Inventory - Suggestions/Examples?

Dear OB colleagues,

I'm currently putting together a survey for a new type of profession
(social media and community managers). My feeling is that the tasks
these professionals carry out differ quite substantially across
organizations. In order to get a better idea of what it is they are
doing, I'd like to include a task inventory and checked the much cited
work by Harvey (1991), but the procedures offered therein seem too
time-consuming for my purpose. I was thinking of listing and ranking the
10 most common activities (activity 1 being the most frequently carried
out activity, for example) and assigning them some relative percentage
of time (activity one takes 25% of the individual's time, for example).
Are any of you aware of a (tested) measure/instrument that could help me
do this? Please feel free to point me to examples you're familiar with.

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards,

David

Harvey, R. J. 1991. Job analysis. In M. D. Dunnette & L. M. Hough
(Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, Vol. 2
(2nd ed.): 71–163. Palo Alto, CA, US: Consulting Psychologists Press.

--
Dr. David Wagner
Post Doc/Assistant Professor
Digital Strategy & Innovation
German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH (GGS)

currently
Visiting Professor
McGill University
Samuel Bronfman Building, office 552
1001 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1G5
Canada

Work +1 514 398 3321
Cell +1 514 576 4795
Web http://www.kpsquared.org/

German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH
Bildungscampus 2
D-74076 Heilbronn
Sitz Heilbronn, Registergericht Stuttgart HRB 109182
Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Zupancic, Prof. Dr. Tomas Bayon