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THE PROBLEM OF SELECTION OF EMPLOYEES 
Personnel selection. The 11 steps in research procedure in employment 
psychology. Considerations in the choice of job or occupation to be studied. 
THE right man in the right place is an age-old ideal of 
industry, education, and government. Economic losses suf- 
fered by industry from misfits in employment are matched 
by the losses borne by the employees themselves, the dissatis- 
factions of misplaced workers engaged day after day on tasks 
that are too easy, too hard, or otherwise unrewarding, dis- 
tasteful, or exasperating. Correct adjustment of workers 
and their work is recognized as a prime responsibility of 
management, an obligation to society no less than to the 
stockholders and to the employees themselves. 
It is a duty of science to help in effecting this adjustment 
of workers and their work, in so far as scientific method can 
be made to yield measures of abilities which are more relia- 
ble than unaided judgment. To speed the perfecting of such 
useful instruments for measuring abilities is the aim of this 
manual. 
THE PROBLEM OF PERSONNEL SELECTION 
To select the best man for a particular opening admittedly 
calls for an understanding of the requirements of the job, 
coupled with the means of finding out which applicant most 
closely meets these requirements. Usually the interviewer 
or employment supervisor responsible for the preliminary 
sifting of applicants has at hand brief but concise employ- 
ment specifications based on job analyses. He also has some 
acquaintance with the job in question through observation