Saturday, 11:00am-12:15pm

The goal of this workshop is to formulate a research agenda for addressing job performance and skills-related issues critical to both the fields of I/O and OB. Key research areas will be discussed, including past efforts seeking to define critical skills and knowledge; the ongoing O*NET project, which is specifying the fundamental education, training, knowledge, and skill requirements for occupations, as well as representing them in a taxonomy; efforts to develop a theory of the determinants of job performance that has implications for measuring workplace skills and knowledge; and R&D aimed at skills certifications. The work in these areas will be reviewed and summarized and the knowledge gaps identified. Given the goals that are either an explicit or implicit component of human resource management and/or organizational initiatives, a research agenda for the I/O and OB community will be discussed.

Rodney A. McCloy is Principal Staff Scientist for the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). Dr. McCloy received a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Minnesota, with specialization in psychometrics and statistics in May of 1990. The bulk of his research experience has involved individual assessment, especially with regard to job performance measurement and modeling. His research in this area has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology and in a chapter in Personnel Selection in Organizations (with John Campbell, Scott Oppler, and Christopher Sager). Dr. McCloy’s current research includes providing technical support for data collection and revision of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new database of occupational information that will replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles; and serving as a member of a technical subgroup for the National Skill Standards Board, a primary charge of which was the establishment of a common skills language to be used by industry partnerships when developing industry-specific skill standards.