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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104 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY three different names. Manifestly, it was not feasible to provide specific tests for each of this large number of posi tions. For not only were these positions subject to great variations from time to time in the kind of work they in volved, but they were often differentiated from each other by mere technical or superficial characteristics for which applicants did not need to possess corresponding differences in their natural equipment and ability. The differences be tween tasks were often differences only in routine and in method, differences which could easily be overcome by a few hours’ acquaintance with the work. On the other hand, the preliminary survey also revealed that among this great variety of work a comparatively small number of character istics dominated. That is, it seemed as if a large number of tasks could be reduced to a comparatively small number of elementary abilities, such as ability in spelling, copying by hand, typing, counting, adding, multiplying, dividing, working in fractions and decimals, filing, sorting, taking dictation, transcribing, operating computing machines, and so forth. It was therefore decided to make the more com prehensive survey with this fact in mind, and to describe all clerical tasks, so far as possible, in terms of their ele mentary requirements. If this could be done, it was to be expected that the process of finding and applying tests to these varieties of work would be greatly simplified. Instead of a heterogeneous mass of tests, corresponding closely to the heterogeneous varieties of clerical tasks differentiated from each other only in superficial respects, it would become possible to establish a much smaller number of tests designed to detect only the more funda mental abilities and therefore susceptible of application to the wide variety of tasks encountered. Another advantage of this procedure was the practical

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