Development of a Procedure for Examining Trades and Labor Applicants for Promotion to First-Line Supervisor

摘要

The Office of Personnel Management has developed a procedure for using a critical incident-based supervisory problems test, self-ratings of ability, and supervisory ratings of ability in ranking applicants for promotion to first-line Federal trades and labor supervisory positions. The procedure incorporates many research findings covering supervisory behavior and provides a systematic method for combining job-related information into a final score that can be used to identify the best qualified applicants. A job element analysis is used to select the most relevant subelements from a pool of 31 subelements describing the trades and labor supervisory domain. The scoring procedure provided combines the judgments of two subject matter experts serving as evaluators of all evidence of applicants' ability who know firsthand the requirements of the supervisory position to be filled.