TESTING  TO  SPECIFICATION

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Posture
Standing—Sitting—-W  alking.
Education  (in  years):  Grammar—High  School—Business  School-College.

Prerequisite  Experience
General  Description  of  Duties

This  outline,  while  neither  comprehensive  nor  final,  made
l(:  necessary  to  describe  each  particular  kind  of  work  in
fairly  specific  terms  and  in  terms  of  activities  which  were
fundamental  rather  than  incidental.  When  the  work  of
five  hundred  and  fifty-seven  clerks  involved  had  been
described  by  making  out  these  forms,  it  was  found  that
two  hundred  and  three  different  tasks  were  listed.  Howler, ­
  closer  study  showed  that  many  of  these  tasks  differed
°uly  in  name,  and  that  the  fundamental  activities  inv
 °lved  were  much  the  same  for  large  numbers  of  them.
Therefore,  a  further  simplification  was  brought  about  by
Ossifying  the  various  tasks  still  more  strictly  on  the  basis
°f  the  abilities  involved,  regardless  of  the  name  given  to
these  tasks  by  the  various  offices  in  which  they  were  being
Performed.  Finally,  the  two  hundred  and  three  jobs  were
r educed  to  about  sixteen,  which  were  named  as  follows:

File  Clerk
Checking  Clerk
Order  Clerk
Ledger  Clerk
Record  Clerk
Messenger  Clerk
Typist

Posting  Clerk
Correspondence  Clerk
Follow-up  Clerk
Sorting  Clerk
Statistical  Clerk
Comptometrist  Clerk
Dictaphone  Typist
Stenographer

.  The  names  given  to  these  jobs  are  unimportant.  The
lrn P°rtant  feature  is  the  fact  that  each  name  stood  for  a