Position Description Questionnaire Collection Project

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2020

Dr. Joseph Casey, County Administrator for Chesterfield County, wants county employees to not only understand what their job is and how to do it, but also why they do it. In his words, “Our collective action toward our ‘Why’ is what makes this county the remarkable place that it is to live, work and enjoy life.”In 2019, Human Resources began a project to collect an updated Position Description Questionnaire (PDQ) with a “Why” statement from all full-time employees. A PDQ is used to describe the duties and the function of a position as it relates to the overall county organizational structure. Information in the PDQ includes percentage of time the employee spends performing the various duties of the position, who provides work direction to the employee, as well as who the employee may provide work direction to, the education, knowledge, skills and abilities needed for the job, and the overall impact the job has on the entire county.