Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 174739971X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-125215

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: La réforme syndicale en Italie

Place of publication:: Rome

Publisher:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 207 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Rapport de la commission du sénat

Collection:: Economics Books

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY DEFINED I t Every propagandist for a new scheme to solve the prob lems of mankind labels it “The Science” of something or other. Since the value of the scientific method is undis puted, the addition of the word scientific to any scheme whatsoever immediately raises a presumption in its favor in the eyes of the credulous consumer. Science, like psychology, is a word in whose name many sins are committed. The word science comes from the Latin word scire, to know; but this fact tells us nothing about the meaning of science; a man may know the entire “ Encyclopaedia Britan- nica” and yet not be a scientist. Science means more than knowledge, however extensive. It means more, even, than accurate knowledge; for an accountant may know every figure and item in his accounts and yet not be a scientist. A scientist is one who can formulate and apply standardized knowledge in a given field. And the scientific method is a method by which knowledge is standardized and refined far beyond the ordinary powers of the human mind. But what do we mean by standardized knowledge? Is this not carrying even science a bit too far, some one will probably ask? Not at all. An inch is an example of standardized knowledge. How many people could agree on the size of an inch without the use of a rule? In the Bureau of Standards at Washington lies the orig inal rule, a metal bar which is used as the standard for every other inch. But this is only a first step in science. What should we say to the tool and gauge maker who measured his work with a foot rule? For his purposes science has devised the micrometer which can measure distances as small as .0001 of an inch and less. The gauge maker is a master of standardized or scientific knowledge in his field. If he were to send the drawings and spec

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