Denkschrift über die Maschinenindustrie der Welt, bestimmt für das Komitee B des Vorbereitenden Ausschusses der Internationalen Wirtschaftskonferenz des Völkerbundes

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Identifikator:: 1011220512

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-20728

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Hasenack, Wilhelm http://d-nb.info/gnd/118546589

Title:: Unternehmertum und Wirtschaftslähmung

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Brückenverlag

Year of publication:: 1932

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 189 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: III. Die Krise der wirtschaftlichen Elastizität

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

JOB ANALYSIS 267 in terms of the concrete and measurable facts which characterize it, and in terms of specific ability rather than in terms of vaguely defined and unmeasurable personal qualities. That this has been done needs little further demonstration. The items contained in the outline are concrete and measurable, and concern the job which is relatively fixed rather than the individual applicants whose number and variety are legion. It may be in sisted that education and experience are strictly per sonal and general characteristics. Not in the sense in which they are used here. It is the job which requires a minimum of ability such as is supposed to be concomitant with a certain education and experience; and when this minimum has been determined, it is possible to measure, either by tests or by a well-prepared set of questions, approximately how far these minimum essentials are present in a given applicant. In some cases, a diploma or an apprenticeship certificate are sufficient guarantee that the applicant has the education required by a given job. Where a job requires specific ability in the various branches of English, mathematics, and other subjects which are acquired more or less thoroughly in school, tests given under psychological conditions can definitely determine to what extent the applicant possesses the necessary abilities. The question which still remains to be answered in the practical carrying out of this work is: Who shall make this analysis? It stands to reason that this should be done by those who are most familiar with the jobs, and that is the various foremen or overseers. In this way, that knowl edge which has been lost to the employment office through centralization will be to some extent regained. It is claimed, and with evident justice, that the foreman is

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