How Are Task Inventories Best Defined

question 1

Multiple Choice

How are task inventories best defined?

• A) Methods that identify employee requirements through an analysis of the overall workplace.
• B) Work-oriented surveys that define jobs in terms of their component activities or tasks.
• C) Worker-based analyses that identify the KSAOs, independent of the actual job.
• D) Job analysis techniques that focus on general worker requirements (e.g., sensory, cognitive, and physical activities.)

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Definitions:

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality structure that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

Id

A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

Personality

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting, which makes them unique.

Ego

Ego, in Freudian psychology, is the component of the personality that is conscious, regulates behavior, and mediates between individual desires and the demands of reality.