Predict Work Performance Research Articles

The relationship between size, strength and task demands.

Abstract To study the relationship between size, strength and task demands, an intensive task-analysis approach was adopted for three physically demanding military occupations (trades). The methodology used was: (i) survey trade experts (incumbents) to obtain information on the physically demanding aspects (tasks) of the trade; (ii) quantify representative trade tasks; (iii) relate operator (male and female) performance on these representative trade tasks with performance on a selected battery of physical tests from the literature; (iv) determine valid job selection standards from predictive tests. The results of the study demonstrated that static strength and anthropometric measurements were successful in predicting work performance in the trade tasks.

Influence of Perceived Job Enrichment and Goal Characteristics on Employees' Satisfaction, Motivation, and Performance

This article describes (a) the relationship of goal setting and job enrichment with work satisfaction, intrinsic work motivation and performance, (b) the importance of growth need strength as a moderating variable, and (c) the evidence for a curvilinear association between job design variables and outcome measures. 117 penitentiary guards received the Job Diagnostic Survey of Hackman and Oldham, the Job Descriptive Index of Smith, et al., Steers' questionnaire on goal characteristics and a performance measure. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that the specificity of goal and job enrichment were equally effective in the prediction of satisfaction and motivation, while difficulty of goals appears to be the best single predictor of work performance. Growth need strength moderated the relationship between difficulty of goals and work satisfaction. The curvilinear effect was nonsignificant.

Concurrent feelings of power and dependency in a sheltered workshop for chronic neuropsychiatrics.

The present study investigated the reported feelings of power and dependency of chronic neuropsychiatric patients in a sheltered workshop. Self-evaluations of dependency were assessed in relation to one real-life role (i.e. disabled welfare recipient), and evaluations of power feelings were assessed in relation to another real life role (i.e. worker in a sheltered workshop), with a complementary work-related performance measure. While dependency and power feelings were independent of each other, it was also found that: 1) dependency feelings positively predicted the number of mental hospital admissions; and 2) feelings of power in the workshop negatively predicted work performance. These results provide direct evidence that feelings of dependency and power can be role specific and not indicative of generalized behaviours. They also provide indirect evidence of a role theory interpretation of learned helplessnesslike phenomena.

Maximal oxygen uptake, sweating and tolerance to exercise in the heat.

The purpose of this experiment was to determine if tolerance to exercise in the heat is related to maximal oxygen uptake (max $${\dot V}$$ 02) and sweating. Seven men with max $${\dot V}$$ 02 between 42 and 66 ml/(min·kg) underwent one 2-hr exposure at 24°C Tq while working on a bicycle ergometer at $$\overline {\text{X}}$$ rel $${\dot V}$$ 02 of 28% ( $$\overline {\text{X}}$$ $${\dot V}$$ 02 = 1.23 1/min). In the hot exposures the high capacity subjects had maximal sweat rates of 800 to 1,000 g/(hr·m2) while the lower capacity men sweated 300 to 400 g/(hr·m2). These differences in sweating were not related to neuromuscular stimuli, $${\dot V}$$ 02 (metabolic rate), Tre, ΔTre, $$\overline {\text{T}}$$ s, Δ $$\overline {\text{T}}$$ s or tolerance time. Tolerance to exercise in the heat was not related to maximal $${\dot V}$$ 02 capacity when the subjects worked at the same relative load in spite of large differences in sweating. These results question the importance of the rate of sweating for predicting work performance in hot environments.

Use of high school data to predict work performance.

Use of high school data to predict work performance.