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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120 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY ciple. Moreover, it appeared that some of the operators had been working at dial machines for periods of from two to ten years, while others had been working only a few months. Naturally, the old workers would be the better operators, even though some of them may not have been as promising as some of the newer girls who had not yet had much experience. All these factors entered into the situation, and still there was a consistent correlation. These correlations were high enough to permit the separa tion of all operators into two classes, the fast and the slow operators, and this classification suggested the basis on which applicants could in the future be assigned to fast or slow machines. That this test distinguished between slow and fast op erators was still further borne out by the fact that two of the four shops mentioned contained slow operators, who did correspondingly slow work in the tests. One shop had slow machines while the night shift of the other shop had very slow operators. Correspondingly, the average performance of the night shift in the test was between twenty-five and thirty per cent poorer than that of the day shift which was made up of fast workers. To check the results still further, the test was given to sixteen applicants chosen at random from the employ ment office. Only three of the sixteen attained the aver age made by the operators in one of the shops, thus tend ing to confirm the statement made by the foreman of this shop that seven out of every ten girls sent in for this work failed to make good. Besides the test already described, the Scott three-hole test was given. This test consists of a board set at an angle of 45° with three holes six inches apart forming an equilateral triangle. The task of the subject is to push

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