Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1748646508

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-122686

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Rühl, Alfred http://d-nb.info/gnd/118750267

Title:: Vom Wirtschaftsgeist in Amerika

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Quelle & Meyer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: IX, 122 S

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Das Verhältnis zum Gelde

Collection:: Economics Books

SELECTING GIRLS AS ASSEMBLERS 57 in order to get the right part to the right space in exactly the right position. In one case, a difference of one thirty- second of an inch had to be detected. The girl who can detect this difference at a glance is far more successful than the girl who has to try the piece out first in one posi tion and then another until the proper fit is found. In order to detect these qualities, a test for the perception of °dd shapes and sizes was devised. It consists, like the dexterity tests just described, of a board with pieces cu t out, except that in this case the pieces are of odd shapes. Some pieces are quite different in shape, but some, almost alike in shape, differ very slightly as to size. When the test is given the pieces are dropped into the cover of the form board and arranged there ac cording to a predetermined scheme. Then the subject ls asked to size each piece up carefully and put it into its proper space, making as few mistakes as possible. It is very interesting to watch the various subjects take this test. Some girls see at a glance where each piece belongs. Others have not the least conception of the re lation between certain shapes and certain spaces, but aim lessly try out each piece at one opening after another until, by chance, the right space is hit upon. Besides the mental qualities just described, the work °I assembling requires strong hands. In order to deter- m ine roughly the strength of the hands, a grip-testing in strument or hand dynamometer is used. Each girl is S'Ven six trials, three with her left hand and three with ber right. The number of pounds registered in each trial ls recorded and the average for each hand constitutes the re cord. The conditions under which this experiment was con ducted represent a departure from the usual procedure.

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