For my masters in health research, I am exploring differences in factors seen as faciliators or barriers to return to work following acquired brain injury between professional/managerial and non professional/managerial jobs.
I feel I have made a novices blunder, as I am struggling to find a reference on which to base my incl/exclu criteria for professional/managerial jobs as the taxonomies i have come accross are based more on industry than career level.
I know that i want to compare careers that usually require higher level education and/ or where there is responsibility for managing others, but now Im questioning whether i should put these two catergories together. My assumption is that these jobs will have higher cognitive and interpersonal demands, but now I am questioning even that! any thoughts/advice would be appreciated.
Hi, The US government has categories of work dependent on lifting capacities, aerobic capacities (METS used), etc. Perhaps the most convenient way to determine this is the MTAP (multidimensional task ability profile), which is essentially a computer program that accurately determines functional capacities and places patients in these categories of work. One of the developers of the program, Joe Verna, DC could answer any specific questions that you have at his cell 858 967 5660. I believe that John Mayor also has strong experitse with this and perhaps he will respond to this list on this.
Ed
Hi!
I would suggest using ISCO-08.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/isco/isco08/
Please, find answers among my publications presented in the journal Work or go to my home page www.soederback.se
The O*NET site would be pretty helpful, I think..
The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.
http://www.onetcenter.org/overview.html
thank you so much everyone for your responses. I think SOC2010 and ISCO -08 provide what i am looking for.
Ingrid, I have looked at your fantastic website, thank you. Unfortunately I have been unable to locate the journal, Work, I think it is affiliated to the Canadian OT journal but i cant seem to access it through my college of OT membership or Athens via CINAHL database, can you help? I would love to see those papers.
best wishes to everyone - annette
The ICF have work outcomes in the ICF Checklist version 2.1a, Clinician form (World Health Organisation 2011)
I think if you would like to categorize activity level (Sports etc) you can use Tegner Scale. Tegner activity level scale is a scale that aims to provide a standardized method of grading work and sporting activities.
Good luck.
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