From: Carol Danaher [mailto:
carold@surewest.net]
Fred:
Have you looked at how the "Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureaus"
(WCIRB) establish employee classifications and then the insurance premium
rates for each class? They seem to be more specific (usually due to
disgruntled employers constantly contesting their own employees'
classifications) and actually perform onsite studies to settle disagreements
about classification assignments.
Getting their input may require getting to know someone in that field but it
may be worth the effort.
Does the BLS and WCIRB work together? I doubt it (i.e. CIA/FBI) but they
may certainly access each others data.
Just a thought.
Carol A. Danaher
California Association for the Education of Young Children
Former Insurance Broker
carold@surewest.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Nickols [mailto:
nickols@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:12 AM
<<<<<As I continue digging through the BLS occupational data, I've settled
on a
couple of coding schemes that seem to be to be useful. One looks at the
work in terms of the kinds of behaviors required (i.e., mental, verbal,
physical) and the second looks at the locus of the interactions between the
person doing the work and his or her task environment. A worker interacts
with or operates upon something in the course of doing his or her work. The
three main ones seem to be materials or things, information and other
people.>>>>>
<<<<<<<Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of any studies or analyses
done in
terms of mental, verbal physical skills AND the kinds of interactions that
characterize a given occupation's work interactions (i.e., with information,
people and materials). I know task analysts, training developers, work
analysts, compensation specialists, etc look at these kinds of things but I
don't know the precise frameworks used by all of them.>>>>>>
Pointers gratefully accepted...
Regards,
Fred Nickols, CPT
Distance Consulting
"Assistance at a Distance"
nickols@att.net
www.nickols.us