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Position Analysis Questionnaire
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a structured job analysis questionnaire that measures job characteristics and relates them to human characteristics, rather than describing the tasks, technologies, or duties of jobs.
The PAQ offers a comprehensive description of the type and level of work behaviors required by a job. It may be used across a wide spectrum of jobs, as well as across time, even though tasks, technologies and duties may change.
Research and experience with the PAQ support the following:
- The job elements of the PAQ represent in a comprehensive manner the domain of human behavior involved in work activities.
- The analysis of jobs with the PAQ response scales results in the reliable measurement of such job elements.
- "Job Dimensions" derived by statistical factor analysis of PAQ job elements represent very stable dimensions of human behaviors involved in work, and thus can serve as the basis for characterizing the "structure" of human work.
For more information please e-mail paqinfo@paq.com.