The Use of a Job Task Analysis in Assessing the Perceptions of Human Resource Managers on the Role of the Rehabilitation Counselor in Industry

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of a group of human resource managers on the roles and functions of rehabilitation counselors in business. A sample of 150 companies in Massachusetts were selected, and a job task analysis questionnaire was mailed to the human resource mangers of these companies. Based on a return rate of 41.5%, those job tasks rated the highest pertained to helping “troubled employees maintain their jobs with the company.” The results of this study appear to reconfirm the importance of vocational counseling and occupational placement courses in rehabilitation counseling training curriculum, and clearly identified the field experience as the most useful tool for developing links with business and industry.