I__. - International Military Testing Association

Table 2 below illustrates the degree of agreement between each of
the holistic methods and the job inventory method. In this table,
the number of job correctly assigned to each grouping are presented
for each holistic method. The percentage of agreement is also
presented for each holistic method.
Table 2
Number of Jobs Correctly Assiqned for Each Holistic Method .
Methods
Psychologist
(Job Description)
Staffing
Specialist
(Job Description)
Staffing
Specialist
(Job Titles)
Grouping
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
1 20 5 9 12 2
0 25 5 8 10 2 50 57.5%
0 18 0 8 13 3 42 48.3%
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Percentage
of Asreement
56.3%
The agreement with the job inventory method was relatively similar
for the two groups working with the short job descriptions and
somewhat lower for the group working only with job titles.
When the factor loadings derived from the job inventory method were
examined more closely, it was found that for 19 jobs the difference
between the primary loading and the secondary loading was less than
0.1. This finding indicates that, in terms of generalized work
behaviors, these jobs could be classified equally well in either of
two groupings. It was decided that the definition of agreement
could reasonably be expanded to include agreement with either the
primary or the secondary grouping for these 19 jobs. Under this
revised definition, the percentages of agreement raise to 64.4% for
the staffing specialists working with job descriptions, 63.2% for
the psychologists, and 54% for the staffing specialist working only
with job titles.
Similar results were obtained when the percentages of agreement
were'calculated using only the 68 jobs for which there were unique
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