Kirkendall Cristina D, Nye Christopher D, Rounds James, Drasgow Fritz, Chernyshenko Oleksandr S, Stark Stephen
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Mil Psychol. 2020 Feb 4;32(1):91-100. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2019.1652480. eCollection 2020.
The history of vocational interests shows that these measures have great promise for use in job assignment, suggesting that individuals will be more satisfied and successful in their job when they are doing work that interests them. Recent research has provided empirical support for these predictions and demonstrated that the match between an individual's interests and his or her work activities is positively related to job performance and negatively related to attrition. Building on these positive empirical findings, the U.S. Army Research Institute is investigating vocational interest measures for personnel job assignment. Person-job fit is very important in a context such as the U.S. Army, where applicants have over 140 military occupational specialties from which to choose. This paper begins by reviewing evidence for the validity of interests and discussing how vocational interest measures may be used for assigning Soldiers in a military context followed by our recent research to develop a new measure of vocational interests to improve the process of matching Soldiers to military occupational specialties. We will conclude with the next steps for this research and potential paths of implementation.
职业兴趣的历史表明，这些措施在工作分配中具有很大的应用前景，这意味着当个人从事自己感兴趣的工作时，他们会对工作更满意且更成功。最近的研究为这些预测提供了实证支持，并表明个人兴趣与工作活动之间的匹配与工作绩效呈正相关，与人员流失呈负相关。基于这些积极的实证结果，美国陆军研究所正在研究用于人员工作分配的职业兴趣测量方法。人岗匹配在美国陆军这样的环境中非常重要，因为申请人有超过140种军事职业可供选择。本文首先回顾兴趣有效性的证据，并讨论职业兴趣测量方法如何用于军事环境中的士兵分配，接着介绍我们最近为开发一种新的职业兴趣测量方法所做的研究，以改进士兵与军事职业匹配的过程。我们将以这项研究的后续步骤和潜在的实施途径作为结论。
