EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY DEFINED 21 psychology or the field of employment is limited to the mere act of hiring or rejecting applicants. This notion of employment work is rapidly becoming obsolete. To day, the training of new employees, keeping accurate records of their activities, transferring them when ad visable, devising methods of promotion, are all phases of the employment problem. The first half of this book deals particularly with the application of psychology to the selection of employees; the latter half deals with its application to these other important phases.