Are Techniques From Job Analysis A Solution?
To date, the primary strategy for conducting team task analysis has been to use techniques from job analysis to determine team task and skill requirements. Our literature review produced examples of the critical incident technique being employed by researchers to identify critical team behaviors (Morgan, Glickman, Woodward, Blaiwes & Salas, 1986; Prince & Salas, 1993) and task importance scales being utilized to establish relative team behavioral importance (Stout, Prince, Baker, Bergondy, & Salas, 1992). We also found researchers who used questionnaires to collect information on team characteristics and the relationships of these characteristics to team performance (Bowers et al., 1993; Campion et al., 1993; Campion et al., 1996). While it is not the intent here to analyze in detail the merits of these approaches for team task analysis, it is doubtful that these adaptations of job analysis methodologies are an adequate approach to analyzing teams. For one thing, each of the applicatio
