Principles for Defining Multi-Skilled Jobs Based on Mission Requirements of Multi-Functional Units: The Multi-Skilled Soldier Job Modeler (MJM)

摘要

This report discusses principles for identifying and categorizing jobs requiring Multi-Skilled Soldiers (MSS). These principles provide insight to key questions that the Army must answer in developing MSS, including how to define MSS, what operational and organizational objectives are trying to be achieved, how MSS will impact Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) restructuring, among others. This process of identifying job requirements is an important element in the MSS Developmental Blueprint which can be used to define and assess potential MSS implementation and sustainment courses of action. This paper describes concepts for defining unit functional requirements, MSS job requirements, and methods to derive the latter from the former. These are organized into the MSS Job Modeler (MJM). MJM included explicit definitions of unit functional requirements and MSS job requirements. Basic principles for job and task analysis as well as principles attributable to developing MSS are identified. The MSS principles include: defining MSS jobs in terms of tasks, knowledge, skills, and abilities; developing MSS to enhance unit deployability, sustainability, lethality, mobility, and survivability; modifying existing job structures to reflect combined arms units, assessing MSS feasibility in terms of mental and physical workload, and addressing Army wide job structure issues.