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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X MACHINE OPERATORS The third large division in the manufacturing process in addition to inspection and assembling is the operation of production machines. Finding operators for these ma chines offers one of the most difficult of all employment problems. The turnover among such operators is unusu ally large for a variety of reasons, most prominent among which is the monotony and strain of the work. To sit day after day watching or feeding a machine which does the same operation over and over again in an endless chain is indeed work which requires ability and tempera ment of a peculiar kind. However, the problem is not merely one of finding in dividuals who can stand the strain; it is also one of se lecting workers who can obtain the maximum output from the machines at which they are stationed. It is the general practice of production engineers to make a very generous allowance for the inefficiency of a machine; but as a matter of fact, this allowance should frequently be charged against the operator. For the inefficiency of a machine is in a large part determined by the ability of the operator. A slow or a poor operator means an inefficient machine, at least in the case of machines which are semi automatic or entirely fed by hand. The writer has ob served hundreds of hand-fed machines which were only fifty or seventy per cent efficient because the operators could not feed them fast enough. On the other hand, many 112

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