136: Ever Used O*Net? A Primer on O*Net for Management Research (15449)

The Occupational Information Network, better known as O*Net, is a database of occupational descriptors created through collaboration between work researchers and the US Department of Labor. O*Net is open access and has myriad uses in HRM and other organizational research, including (but not limited to) appending occupational constructs to archival and meta-analytic datasets, mitigating common method bias, and designing job description-based manipulations. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce unfamiliar scholars to O*Net. Our goal is that participants from diverse divisions of the Academy can leave this workshop with the ability to apply O*Net in their own work. To that end, we will facilitate guided interaction with the data and ideation about immediate potential applications to the participant’s research pipeline, informed by hundreds of studies in our field incorporating O*Net into their research methodology. Topics in service of this objective include (50 min): An introduction to the O*Net content model; uses in primary/archival/meta-analytic data studies (including examples); how to merge O*Net with primary/archival/meta-analytic data sources; and what we can measure using O*Net data, including measures scholars have created to extend O*Net’s utility. We will close with a discussion O*Net’s role in future research and emerging topics, featuring esteemed keynote speakers (40 minutes).