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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

i6 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY applying for the same position, and one seems consider ably more desirable than the other, the interviewer may be just on the point of hiring this candidate when his eye is suddenly caught by the pin of a fraternity which he heartily dislikes. The sight of this pin may immediately cause him to shift his favorable opinion to the other and less desirable applicant. Anyone familiar with employ ment conditions knows that the instances given above could be multiplied indefinitely. The casual methods prevalent not only in employment work but in the handling of workers throughout in dustry in general is one of the anomalies of the age. For fifty years and more, the utmost attention has been paid to the development and refinement of the mechanical processes of manufacture. The division of labor has been carried to a point which would have been incredible a generation ago. But the division of laborers is almost as haphazard now as it was then. Now every large industry has its chemical and physical laboratory, in which it examines most minutely the quality of the ma terials which it receives and fabricates. But the effort during all this time devoted to the improvement of methods for handling human material has been ridicu lously cheap and inadequate. As a single and a very prac tical instance of this easy-going policy, as applied to em ployment problems, the following quotation from an address to a convention of California railroad men is given: “Would you, gentlemen, enter into a contract to buy material from a concern, the excellence of whose prod uct you had grave reason to doubt? Would you place orders to the extent of three and one-half million dollars a year, waive inspection of material, accept whatever was offered you, and make no effort to get your money’s worth?

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