Deborah L. Whetzel is a Principal at Work Skills First, Inc. In this position, she has developed competency models for an international hotel chain and for law enforcement organizations. During her tenure with the American Institutes for Research, the U.S. Postal Service, and Caliber Associates, she has directed or conducted research on projects dealing with job analysis and competency model development, test development, research, and implementation, and performance appraisal development. Dr. Whetzel has taught courses in test development and validation techniques and organizational behavior at Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University. Her work has been presented at professional conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. She received her Ph.D. from George Washington University.
George R. Wheaton is recently retired, having spent his professional career with the American Institutes for Research (A.I.R.) in Washington, DC. He received his A.B. degree in psychology from Bowdoin College (1961) and his M.Sc. in clinical psychology from McGill University (1963). While at A.I.R. he conducted, directed, and managed a variety of I/O psychological research activities first as a project director, then as Vice President and Director of the Washington Research Center, and most recently as the corporation's Vice President for Quality Assurance. His research interests have included taxonomies of performance, individual differences, and application of job and task analysis methods to transfer of training phenomena and development of criterion performance measures for individuals and teams.