Penition Analysis Questionnaire . The PAQ is often described as a worker-oriented method of job analysis. The term worker -oriented was coined to describe the idea that the items on the PAQ can be applied to the activities and behaviors of all workers, regardless of the specific jobs they perform. The PAO items tend to be abstract, but they are not quite as abstract as the FJA's three dimensions of data, people, and thing.
The creator of the PAQ Ernest J McCormick, started with two assumptions relatively few work behaviors exist across all jobs, and all jobs can be described in terms of how much they involve each of these behaviors. Based on these assumptions, he developed a structured questionnaire containing 194 statements that describe worker behavior. These statements are organized into six divisions