job requirements

the personal qualities or skills that are necessary for performing work tasks safely and effectively. Job requirements may include, for example, good verbal communication skills, the ability to drive a truck, or the ability to perform complex mathematical calculations. They are normally identified in the personnel specification for a job.

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Psychology term of the day

December 25th 2024

actor–observer effect

in attribution theory, the tendency for individuals acting in a situation to attribute the causes of their behavior to external or situational factors, such as social pressure, but for observers to attribute the same behavior to internal or dispositional factors, such as personality. See fundamental attribution error. See also dispositional attribution; situational attribution. [introduced in 1971 by U.S. psychologists Edward E. Jones (1926–1993) and Richard E. Nisbett (1941– )]