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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TESTING TO SPECIFICATION 107 Posture Standing—Sitting—-W alking. Education (in years): Grammar—High School—Business School- College. Prerequisite Experience General Description of Duties This outline, while neither comprehensive nor final, made l(: necessary to describe each particular kind of work in fairly specific terms and in terms of activities which were fundamental rather than incidental. When the work of five hundred and fifty-seven clerks involved had been described by making out these forms, it was found that two hundred and three different tasks were listed. How ler, closer study showed that many of these tasks differed °uly in name, and that the fundamental activities in- v °lved were much the same for large numbers of them. Therefore, a further simplification was brought about by Ossifying the various tasks still more strictly on the basis °f the abilities involved, regardless of the name given to these tasks by the various offices in which they were being Performed. Finally, the two hundred and three jobs were r educed to about sixteen, which were named as follows: File Clerk Checking Clerk Order Clerk Ledger Clerk Record Clerk Messenger Clerk Typist Posting Clerk Correspondence Clerk Follow-up Clerk Sorting Clerk Statistical Clerk Comptometrist Clerk Dictaphone Typist Stenographer . The names given to these jobs are unimportant. The lrn P°rtant feature is the fact that each name stood for a

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