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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MACHINE OPERATORS 121 a short plunger into each hole in succession as rapidly an d accurately as possible. A Veeder counter at the bot tom of each hole registers the successful thrusts. The r esults from this test showed very little agreement with the piece-work production of the dial-machine operators. ■Neither was there any agreement between the perform- a nces in the three-hole test and in the machine test. This Seern s to indicate that the three-hole test does not apply to work of this particular kind. Much has been said and written about the sense of ra ythm and its effect upon continuous repetitions of the Sa me operation. The real nature of rhythm and its con ation with, or contribution to, work is, however, only a mtly understood. Nevertheless, it was perfectly obvious the observer, in watching various kinds of work, that ae sense of rhythm frequently does play an important P at "t, especially in work which is based upon some artifi- Cla l rhythmic stimulus, like the rhythmic action of a Machine. The body and limbs seem to lend themselves ea tirely to the rhythmic completion of a continuous cycle . Movements. Now, this tendency was very conspicuous ln the use of the machine operator’s test. Those who did in this test seemed almost at once to fall into a bodily s Wing which enabled them to govern their motions with ?mch greater ease and certainty than those who did not. a mr manner of dropping the ball through the slot at the a Ppropriate instant seemed to be mechanical rather than s Ndied, and they maintained a poise and control which a °se who lacked this rhythmic swing did not have. The conclusions to be drawn from this experiment have /eady been indicated. In the first place, by means of ls _ test, it was very clearly demonstrated that there was a distinct difference between the average of those who

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