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 IO9 ln topical filing. Or the employment office may receive a requisition for a clerk whose work is very simple and re quires no ability whatsoever in arithmetic. In the former Ca se, a stenographer who did not possess ability in topical filing would probably prove unsatisfactory. In the latter Ca se, a clerk who did have ability in arithmetic would be a Wa ste of human material, especially if such a clerk were Urgently required for another position which did require that faculty. Obviously, therefore, it is desirable to make ar rangements by which specifications could be made more flexible, so as to cover any situation which might arise. This can be done by means of the requisition blank. To fiegin with, a copy of the standard specifications must be kept in every office covering the tasks being done in that °ffice. A complete set of specifications is kept in the em ployment office. The ordinary requisition for help may therefore be made by merely marking on the requisition “lank the name or symbol of the particular specifications to be filled. However, when an exception arises for which the standard specifications are not adequate, the form a ^ r eady described can be sent to the employment office, '''here it can be used as a basis for selecting the proper applicant. In this manner, a considerable degree of flexi- hity may be had. There is nothing theoretical or abstract about the Procedure described. All of these measures and more nave been worked out in detail and put to practical use "nth increasingly good results. Nevertheless, a word of ' Va rning must be given. In the first place, the activities Numerated here as elementary or fundamental are neither comprehensive nor final. It may be possible to analyze nem into other still more fundamental activities. Cer- tamly, there are many kinds of work besides those named

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