Know
your mustering’s worth
By
FLTLT Andy Diggle
Volume
48, No. 3, March 9, 2006
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Occupational
analysis (OA) can identy appropriate remuneration,
tasks and training for your trade or profession.
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OA
can help in determining appropriate taskings for
locations and ranks.
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OA
can also help in assessing whether your training
reflects today’s technologies and can assist
in pay cases and retention issues.
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Information
and copies of previous reports can be found on the
DRN.
Click on Occupational Analysis in the menus on the
left.
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DO
you want to know what your trade is really doing? Do you want
to know where your profession or trade is heading?
Do you think your trade is worth more money than you currently
receive? Does your training reflect today’s technology?
If you have ever asked these and other questions and don’t
have evidence to support your argument, then help is at hand.
Occupational Analysis (OA) is a process that can identify and
classify the work done by individuals and groups within a trade,
category or specialisation in surveys using the Task Inventory
(TI) approach.
OA can be performed as a single Service or tri-Service analysis
and is used to measure the time spent by those individuals or
groups (officers and other ranks) performing those jobs.
So, what is actually done and how much time is spent doing it?
It may sound like an easy question to answer but you’d
be surprised how difficult it is to list everything done in
a job or workplace.
OA can establish what people are doing in their job and who
performs those functions within the workgroup, with highly specific
task data.
The process can also be used to collect information on other
issues including career intentions, attitudes and training.
This can assist in the validation of occupational structures,
employment specifications, training and any other related issues.
Specific information such as this can enable managers to see
what is taking up the most or little of people’s time.
It can identify tasks that are being performed which are not
workgroup related, or tasks no longer performed that training
still covers.
It can also help determine whether tasks being performed are
appropriate for a given location or rank, or provide detailed
information about the structure of employment, and how restructuring
can improve efficiency.
The OA section can help with pay cases and retention issues
and the projects can support organisation-related decisions
based on fact.
OA section has recently completed single Service studies on
the Navy Electronic and Marine Technician categories, the Army
Linguist special duties trade, and the Army Psychology Examiner
trade.
In the past, tri-Service studies of the Physical Training Instructors,
ADF Communication and Information Systems Operators, ADF Electronic
Warfare trades, the ADF Aviation Technical trades and the ADF
Clerical and Administration trades have been undertaken.
More recently the adjustment and refinement of the Navy Marine
Technician initial trade training, the advanced training and
advanced skills technical courses has occurred, with the new
courses being introduced throughout this year.
Data from the same OA is supporting a pay case due for submission
later in the year.
The Army Linguist special duties OA was in support of a trade
re-structure and established baseline tasks performed by members
of the trade by rank and any overlap in tasks performed between
ranks.
