This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise of work design and job analysis practice and research in over 20 years. The handbook, dedicated to Sidney Gael, is the next generation of Gael 's successful Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry and Government published by Wiley in 1988. It consists of four parts: Methods, Systems, Applications and Research /Innovations. Finally, a tightly integrated, user friendly handbook of interest to students, practitioners and researchers in the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management.