ERIC Number: ED087925
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1973-Jun
Pages: 21
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Analysis of Industrial Supervisor Tasks in North Central VTAE [Vocational, Technical and Adult Education] District.
Woolsey, James W.; Bula, Ronald J.
Twenty-eight industrial supervisors from nine different firms in the North Central VTAE District were selected by the management of their firm to take part in supervisor task analysis. The results of the analysis were to be incorporated into a supervisory training program. The survey instrument was divided into three sections: demographic data, direct task observations, and questionnaire answers. Presenting the data accumulated in a sample instrument identifying the frequency for each task, the frequency rank value assigned, and the mean significance of the task (reported by the supervisors), revealed that there was a significant difference between the actual tasks performed (as observed by researchers) and the tasks reported performed on the questionnaire. There was also a real difference between mean level of significance in the task analysis and questionnaire portions of the study, and there were no real correlations between frequency of tasks actually performed and the reported levels of significance for those tasks. With specific limitations understood, the data could be used to design a two-dimensional profile of the observed tasks and one for the "less than routine" tasks. (AG)
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.; Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison.
Authoring Institution: North Central Technical Inst., Wausau, WI.
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