Gleichberechtigung von Kapital und Arbeit

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Identifikator:: 1014334349

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41140

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Piechottka, Erwin

Title:: Gleichberechtigung von Kapital und Arbeit

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlag von Hans Robert Engelmann

Year of publication:: 1921

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (64 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 232 means of mere observation. But can mere observation gauge the beat of a man’s pulse, or the pressure of his blood, or the temperature of his body? Can it detect any one of the hundred and one ailments which may afflict an individual healthy to all outward appearances? What should we think of an insurance company which selected its risks by mere observation, or of an army which selected its men by giving them only the “once over”? The physical examination, with its thoroughness, its mechan ical aids, its chemical analysis, is a standing testimony to the unreliability of observation. To guess correctly nine times out of ten may be possible, especially to those who are gifted with the knack. However, an insurance company which guessed correctly nine times out of ten would be bankrupt in a very short time. And an army which made only one mistake in ten would in all prob ability break down at the crucial test. Industries, until recently, have labored along under the economic burden which their mistakes in this respect imposed on them. However, there are now signs in the recognition of the im portance of the labor-turnover problem that these mis takes will not be tolerated much longer. The phrase, observational method, is used here to mean making an estimate of an individual on the basis of a cursory scrutiny of his general appearance and of those actions which are likely to appear during the characteristic short employment interview. Naturally, the longer an observation is continued the more things about an in dividual it can include and the more reliable the resulting judgment will be. But, even prolonged observations are not necessarily reliable, and it often happens that, after having known friends for years, we find that we have not really known them at all. The employment interview

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