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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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

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STENOGRAPHERS, TYPISTS, AND COMPTOMETRISTS 89 orie hundred and forty comptometrists, and finally, to more than one hundred and twenty candidates for comptometry. ^hat is, more than one thousand people were tested and ftote than five thousand tests were given. The tests selected on the basis of these experiments are those which showed the highest and most consistent agreement with the abilities of those examined. By no means compre hensive or final, they have nevertheless proved them- Se Jves practical guides in the selection and grading of ap plicants for the kinds of office-machine work mentioned. tost of these tests are given in the Appendix, with direc- t'ons for use, under the names of the work to which they apply. typists and dictating-machine operators Obviously, the most important test which can be given to a typist is a test in the actual work of typing a given copy or f orm< Several tests were selected or devised for . s purpose and tried out on a number of typists with a g lew of discovering which tests were most significant. °rne very important points were revealed by these pre- "ninary trials. In the first place, it soon became appar- etlt that the tests must be given on a machine of the type to w hich the applicant had become accustomed or on hich she had been trained. A slight difference in ma- ^ 'nes was frequently enough to throw a typist out of er stride and cause her to make an unusual number of typographical errors, errors which were obviously due to ^familiarity with the machine. The solution of this Acuity was to allow each applicant to take the typing test on the machine of her choice. However, where this ^ as ^practicable, a standard machine was chosen, and e a pplicant given sufficient time to adjust it to her use.

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