ijcrb.webs.com INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS COPY RIGHT © 2012 Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research 532 JANUARY 2012 VOL 3, NO 9 JOB APPROPRIATENESS (THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND MEASURE IT) (A CASE STUDY IN IRANIAN OIL REFINING AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY) KAMRAN NAZARI Department of Business Management, Payam Noor University, Kermanshah, Iran MOSTAFA EMAMI Young Researchers Club, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. HAMID MALEKI Teacher of Payam-noor University. Abstract: Job Appropriateness (fit between personal characteristics and job requirements), one of the fundamental issues of human resource management has been proven that this is a Job Appropriateness for the organizational efficiency of human resources is essential. Given the importance of Job Appropriateness , Job Appropriateness in this study were reviewed and evaluated solutions and suggestions for improvement are presented. The main aim of this study and assess the appropriateness of the company's professional staff is the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution. In order to assess the appropriateness of international job bank job 1 (O * NET) was used, with regard to this subject in the population studied, 37 were identified as existing staff who work in these jobs, according to the job description The job description business standards in the database of job internationally are available to compare and match was the 27th title of the job with the international code and the score of knowledge, skills and abilities required to determine and were identified and 27 were given the average job titles of each of the questionnaire included 21 questions were developed to be designed. Reliability of job suitability assessment 0 / 87 respectively and Cronbach questionnaires because of 0 / 7 are the reliability of the questionnaire were necessary. The population size is about 150. Based on stratified random sampling of 80 sample was selected and the 78 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Data obtained from tests to determine the normal Kolmogorov - Smirnov normality test was used and the results confirmed the data, to determine suitability for the job of comparing the scores obtained from standardized questionnaires with scores in the bank job International (O * NET) is available to use are the findings of this study indicate the fact that only about 40 percent of the employees of these companies in terms of Job Appropriateness , and these findings indicate that the issue is that the population studied, the proportion not have a good job. Key words: Job knowledge, job skills, job ability.