Sidney A. Fine Grant for Research on the Analysis of Work

The Sidney A. Fine Grant supports research on analytical approaches for describing and understanding work, including competency modeling, job analysis, work analysis, and critical incidents. The grant encourages research in diverse formats, including bibliographic, empirical, methodological, model development, and theoretical investigations. The research may explore work analysis applications in a variety of areas, including employee selection, skills-based hiring, job design, career development, career paths, or talent architecture. Special emphasis is given to research that advances work analysis methodologies that tackle the evolving dynamics of work (e.g., gig economy, virtual work), the use of emerging technology (such as machine learning, natural language processing, and AI), and/or legal frameworks (such as pay equity laws). Named after Dr. Sidney Fine who devised Functional Job Analysis in the late 1940s while working for the Department of Labor, this grant honors his contribution to systematic approaches to gathering detailed information about jobs. His approach provided the organizing structure for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, later evolving into O*Net.