<Li> Skill: "A practiced act". </Li> <Li> Ability: "The stable capacity to engage in a specific behavior" </Li> <Li> Other characteristics: "Personality variables, interests, training, and experiences" </Li> <P> Finally, once the appropriate KSAOs are identified, tests and other assessment techniques can be chosen to measure those KSAOs . Over the years, experts have presented several different systems and methods to accomplish job analysis . Many forms of systems are no longer in use, but those systems that still exist have become increasingly detailed over the decades with a greater concentration on tasks and less concentration on human attributes . That trend, however, has reversed in recent years for the better . Newer methods and systems have brought I-O psychology back to an examination of the behavioral aspects of work . </P>

Task analysis is a detailed study of a job to identify the specific skills and abilities required