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VOL. 51, No. 4 JULY, 1954 Psychological Bulletin THE CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUE JOHN C. FLANAGAN American Institute for Research and University of Pittsburgh During the past ten years the writer and various collaborators have been engaged in developing and utilizing a method that has been named the "critical incident technique." It is the purpose of this article to describe the development of this methodology, its fundamental principles, and its present status. In addition, the findings of a considerable number of studies making use of the critical incident technique will be briefly reviewed and certain possible further uses of the technique will be indicated. The critical incident technique consists of a set of procedures for collecting direct observations of human behavior in such a way as to facilitate their potential usefulness in solving practical problems and developing broad Psychological principles.
discussion in this summary volume, which was written in the late spring of 1946. In the section on techniques for defining job requirements, the present author wrote as follows: The principal objective of job analysis procedures should be the determination of critical requirements.
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