By Occupational Analysts to create task lists and job inventories for normal and special occupation analysis studies. By Researchers to test new procedures, approaches, and technologies for the collection of occupational, training, attitude, organizational climate, or other types of information needed by managers and decision makers im making critical MPT decisions. By other analysts, researchers, and functional managers to expedite and improve collection of MPT information to enhance job specification and individual human productivity. Many DoD personnel routinely use e-mail, post information to and download information from the Internet, and perorm some interactive processing. Recently, some agencies have begun collecting data electronically via computer disks or from electronic forms transmitted over the Internet.
Internet technology provides three key benefits.
These benefits include hardware independence, easy access to data and improved software portability. Web posting of results of surveys and analyses with e-mail notification to respondents is also now both feasible and practical. There is, however, much work to be accomplished in the area of enhancing data relevance and quality as well as developing and applying intelligent search engines for defining occupations and training requirements, and other interactive enhancements. Current Internet developments and usage suggest that significant reductions in time and costs can be made, with a strong probability of enhanced reliability and validity of survey responses as well as increased participant motivation and involvement. A number of development areas are of interest in this project.