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The purpose of this study was to explore employee consciousness on task ability: on its perceived components and on individual differences in task ability. Subjects consisted of 877 employees derived from 4 different companies.
Three questions were asked; 1) what are the components of task ability perceived by employees? 2) to what extent do they see individual differences associated with the task ability? and 3) what do they see are the determinants of task ability?
The following results were found.
1) Employees tend to see task ability as an integrated whole covering achievement, potential and personal characteristics, rather than as a narrow task performing ability.
2) Individual variations in the task ability were perceived to be large. This result contradicted prediction that stated employee would see no individual differences in the level of employees task ability.
3) Regarding the perceived determinants of task ability, it was found that employees see differenees in individual aptitudes and task efforts create differential quality of task ability among themselves.
