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 I. Psychological tests

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82 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY and who left shortly after this experiment was tried. The leader of this group outranked its other members. The leaders in each of the other three groups also ranked within the first fifteen. The young man who had the highest rank in intelligence and who was in charge of the ledger group has since been promoted to a much more im portant position. The girl who was first in technique and third in intelligence was considered the fastest girl in the office. The clerk who was lowest in both tech nique and intelligence had been at work for four weeks and in that time the man in charge of her work had tried in vain to make her a success. She was unable, after four weeks of practice, to sort time tickets without making bad mistakes. It was in the test most nearly resembling this operation, the card-sorting test, that this girl did most poorly. Although externals were all in this clerk’s favor, the man in charge of her had finally lost pa tience and recommended her discharge. Another clerk with a responsible position, a college education, unusual business experience, and a prepossessing appearance, showed up quite well in the intelligence test but very poorly in the tests for technique. The conclusion sug gested by these tests has been remarkably borne out. The promising appearance and poor performance of this clerk had caused a considerable difference of opinion in the office; but her immediate superior and supervisor maintained that he did not feel comfortable while she was at her pres ent work. On the strength of the tests, the files which this clerk was keeping were inspected and the suspicions as to her accuracy were confirmed. The files were found to be in very bad shape. Unlike some previous experiments, this case showed a decided correspondence between technique and intel-

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