L' economia italiana dal 1919 al 1929

Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1014451132

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-29111

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Hauthal, Rudolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/116549769

Title:: Das Minenwesen in Argentinien

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Süd- und Mittel-Amerika-Verlag G.m.b.H.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY other measurements of ability may be evaluated. If more than one reliable criterion may be had, it is important that ihe measurements be checked against each of them sepa- rately. Wechsler (214), for example, in his study of taxi- cab drivers, discovered that one of his tests predicted the number of accidents the driver would have and another the wages he would earn. The use of only one of these criteria would have made his study half as valuable. 1. Time required to train the employee. In many occu- pations, preliminary training is given the new employee before He is placed at work or during the early stages of his employment while he has but little proficiency. The cost of this supervision or special training is usually con- siderable, and other things being equal, the sooner the new employee acquires the necessary information and skill the greater the saving to the firm. Where the employee is re- quired to reach a certain level of proficiency before being allowed to enter active service, the criterion may be the time required to reach the prescribed level. Some employers guarantee to workers or salesmen a minimum rate of pay, to which is added a bonus or a piece-rate payment when the employee’s performance warrants it. Usually the employee is costing the concern more than he earns until this stage of proficiency is reached. In this case, the time required to learn the job well enough to be earning a bonus is a use- ful criterion of initial vocational success. 2. Standing in corporation schools. If the preliminary training takes place in a vestibule school, apprenticeship course or other corporation school, the grades received in this school may be used as a criterion for testing the effec- tiveness of selective methods. The instruction is ordinarily of the practical sort which concerns itself with the particu- lar operations required for the job, and the criterion often becomes the rating of the teacher on the skill which the student displays in these operations at the end of the course. When possible, actual measure of this skill should be ob- 34

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