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

Collection:: Economics Books

n6 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY feed machine has a revolving table ringed with holes or pins which the operator has to keep filled with the parts upon which the machine is operating. In some shops these dials revolved very slowly and therefore did not require fast operators. In other shops they revolved very quickly and required very fast operators. The foreman of the largest of these shops stated that seven girls out of ten failed to make good as operators on his machines. The test which was finally developed to meet these con ditions was similar to, and still quite different from, the Bogardus piece. Its motive power consisted of an old graphophone motor. The advantages of this motor were its comparative compactness and simplicity. On the top of the graphophone dial was placed a round, sheet-metal disk, large enough so that it projected considerably over the edge of the motor box. Near the edge of the disk were cut two slots eight inches long and an inch and a half wide. These slots were fitted with slides which made it possible to regulate the size of the opening. Under this disk, and attached to the motor box in such a position as to be directly under the slots in the revolving disk, was placed a funnel. At the neck of this funnel a Veeder counter was attached in such a way that a one-inch steel ball dropped through the funnel would cause it to register. The object of the test was to revolve the sheet-metal disk so that the slots in its border passed over the mouth of the funnel at a certain number of revolutions per minute. As the slot passed over the funnel, the operator, or person being tested, was to drop the steel ball so that it would fall through the slot and into the funnel below it, where it would be registered. If the ball were dropped on the disk or at one side of the opening, it would naturally fail to register.

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