Job Survey - Complexity

COMPLEXITY OF WORK measures the nature, variety, and intricacy of tasks involved in the work you perform.

From the list below, please select the level of complexity that is most representative of your position.

		The work consists of related, simple tasks where there is little or no variety nor choice to be made in deciding what needs to be done. Employees are expected to resolve identical situations by making simple choices among a limited number of learned things.
		The work consists of duties that involve related steps, processes, or methods. Employees resolve similar situations by discriminating between choices of learned things that generally follow a well-defined pattern. When confronted with work situations, the employee has learned which choice is most appropriate through prior experiences.
		The work includes various duties involving different and unrelated processes and methods. At this level, more independent thought and creativity is involved. Employees resolve differing situations requiring a search for solutions or new applications within the area of learned things. The employees rely on thier experience to know what options exist and to make sound judgments.
		The work typically includes varied duties requiring many different and unrelated processes and methods such as those relating to well-established aspects of an administrative or professional field. Decisions regarding what needs to be done include the assessment of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting data. The work requires making many decisions concerning such things as the interpreting of considerable data, planning of the work, or refining the methods and techniques to be used. Situations are often more hypothetical, with the need to develop alternatives. Positions deal with situations that are largely new.
		These positions are confronted with the unknown, in situations with little or no precedents. Work requires the development of new concepts and imaginative approaches without guidance from others. The work consists of broad functions and processes of an administrative or professional field. Assignments are characterized by breadth and intensity of effort and involve several phases being pursued concurrently or sequentially with the support of others within or outside of the organization. Decisions regarding what needs to be done include largely undefined issues and elements, requiring extensive probing and analysis to determine the nature and scope of the problems. The work requires continuing efforts to establish concepts, theories, or programs, or to resolve unyielding problems.