Analysis; *Workplace Literacy

This guide, which is intended for project directors, coordinators, and other professional staff involved in developing and delivering workplace education programs, explains the process of conducting a job task analysis to create customized curricula to meet the workplace education students ' needs. After a brief discussion of the rationale for conducting a job task analysis, the job task analysis process is described as a procedure whereby supervisors and competent workers are observed, questioned, interviewed, and asked to supply materials so that the work-related competencies and basic skills required to perform a given job can be identified and used as a basis for developing a job-specific curriculum. Provided next are general guidelines for conducting a job task analysis and specific guidelines for interviewing/observing and collecting and organizing information. Also included are the following: sample employee and supervisor questionnaires; lists of reading, grammar/usage, math, writing, and speaking skills typically required in the workplace; lists of selected work-related competencies in the areas of identifying/using resources, working with others, acquiring/using information, understanding complex interrelationships/systems, and working with technology; and a sample job task analysis form. Contains a list of nine informational resources. (MN) * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document.