Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin

Title:: The ABC of taxation

Edition:: Fourth edition specially revised

Place of publication:: Garden City, New York

Publisher:: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. The three legs of the Tripos

Collection:: Economics Books

XI APPRENTICE toolmakers and machinists The choice of apprentices is one of the most important °f all problems of selection. In most other cases, a mis take is discovered soon after the worker begins to apply himself to the work for which he has been hired. The ap prentice, however, is not expected to show much ability or skill at the outset. He is engaged as a pupil rather than a f a worker, and it may be months before he begins to give definite promise of success in his chosen trade. The u sual duration of an apprentice course is four years and apprentices are bound for the period of the course. The Gaining and instruction spent upon them and the equip ment placed at their disposal make mistakes of selection 111 this field very costly indeed. The problem of selection, therefore, resolves itself into an attempt to choose, at the very beginning, the boy who is likely to succeed in the ° n g run. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly necessary to ex- er cise the same degree of care in the choosing of men for a similar purpose. The immediate necessity for tool- makers and machine-tool operators has so far exceeded y e supply naturally resulting from apprentice schools .at it has been found advisable to begin intensive-train- ln g shops. The purpose of these shops is to take green and, in the course of a few weeks or months, train m, e m to do the more simple work of toolmaking or han- n g a machine tool. Where intensive training of this kind 123 dli

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