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

MACHINE OPERATORS II 9 earnings of these operators, averaged over periods of from °ne to four months, depending on the shop and the number °f months of production available. In one of the three shops a night shift had recently started work and tests 'Were given to twenty-one women on this shift. Many of these women were immigrants who could not understand English, and quite a number were elderly women. How ler, comparatively little difficulty was experienced in showing them how to perform the test. The results in all oases showed that there was a marked correspondence be tween ability in this test and ability to feed dial machines. The results in all groups may be summarized as follows: Correlations Number of operators tested 1st trial 2nd trial 3rd trial ^hst Shop. . . 25 ■36 .40 •54 Jwcond Shop.... 22 •43 .14 no trial Third Shop 28 ■4i .28 •43 ^bird Shop. . . . _ (night shift) 21 .22 .22 •50 The correlations found are not high in every case, but ^ the correlations obtained on the third trial are uni- °tmly good. This may be due to the fact that the first trials were too easy, whereas the third trial, with the °t only half open, more nearly approached the actual °P e ration in difficulty. It also seems likely that some °P e tators were so set in their regular habits of machine °P er ating that they could not readily adapt themselves ^0 the changed conditions of this test. The interference r P r evious habits is a well-established psychological prin

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