Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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X INTRODUCTION employment manager has some principles of selection which operate in advance of an actual trial. Among these means of provisional selection or limitation of the numbers for actual trial, objective measurements of the candidate’s abilities and achievements and aptitudes are being adopted rapidly by progressive employers. Among such objective measurements, those devised by psycholo gists have recently attracted special attention by their promise of special usefulness. They seem destined to save time, trouble, and money in many cases. Dr. Link’s book is important because it gives an honest, impartial account of the use of psychological tests under working conditions in a representative industry. He has the great merit of writing as a man of science assessing his own work, not as an enthusiast eager to make a market for psychology with business men. Indeed the story of his experiments is distinctly conservative, for in many cases he could have obtained an even better prediction of success at a given job than he did obtain, by applying the technique of partial correlations and the regression equation so as to obtain a weighted composite score from a team of tests. Dr. Link’s book also gives much valuable detail concern ing the practical arrangements for investigating the merits of tests and for putting satisfactory ones into operation. It will be read with interest and profit by students of psychology and of business and industrial efficiency. Edward L. Thorndike. 1 Teachers* College, Columbia University.

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