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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94 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY given length of time, regardless of whether the speed of dictation is too slow or too fast. The other is to adapt the speed of dictation as nearly as possible to the capacity of the applicant. In either case the result is graded accord ing to the amount done correctly. The former method has proved unsuccessful partly because it is impossible for any examiner to give dictation at an absolutely uniform rate of speed to every individual, and partly because it is obviously unfair to require a novice or an unpractical stenographer to take dictation at a rate which her sub sequent employer may never expect her to equal. The tests given in the Appendix are examples of tests used for this purpose. These tests were given as nearly as possible at the speed which was best adapted to the applicant’s ability. The results were then graded on both the basis of the total time consumed and the amount done correctly. Stenographers are frequently required to do work of more importance than merely taking and transcribing dictation. They frequently hold secretarial positions which require considerable executive ability. In that case, care must be taken not to place an interpretation on these tests which exceeds the purpose for which they are intended. Further tasks and abilities require additional and more difficult tests. COMPUTING-MACHINE OPERATORS The use of computing machines in connection with cost and payroll work, the taking of inventories, and statistical work of all kinds, has become very extensive. Indeed, so important has this work become that there is now a very large class of workers who specialize in the use of one of these machines just as the typist and stenog rapher specialize in the use of a typing machine. The

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