Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

Collection:: Economics Books

THE VESTIBULE SCHOOL 287 into the selection and retention of an employee. One of these is the effect of novelty. A new employee who is plunged suddenly into a totally new environment is very likely to lose his confidence and to become discouraged to the point of giving up his work. This tendency is more marked in women and girls than in men. The training school should be conducted in such a way that the new employee is placed, from the outset, under the encourag ing care of a sympathetic instructor. The presence or absence of a sympathetic instructor in an enormous num ber of cases is the difference between success or failure on the part of the new employee. Again, a new employee plunged into the midst of the work which he is intended to do is likely to become discouraged when he sees the great difference between his own clumsy efforts and the highly skilled actions of the experienced workmen who surround him. A training school shields a new employee against such a damaging contrast until his own skill more nearly approaches the skill of those with whom he is destined to work. Again, a preliminary period of training makes it possible to instruct the new employee in the cus toms and practices of shop work in general. For example, he can be taught the meaning and use of the lot system, how to make out a time ticket, how to make a claim for short pay, how to arrange for absences, and numerous other details which play so important a part in making the employee feel at home in a shop. Finally, the presence of a vestibule school removes the necessity of hiring applicants for the immediate needs of the moment, and thereby makes possible a much wiser and more farsighted selection. Under the present system, it usually happens that some office or shop suddenly needs a stenographer or a group of operators, and needs them at

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