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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APPRENTICE TOOLMAKERS AND MACHINISTS I r TJ opinion of this boy, after seeing his work for a month, was such as to raise his rank from tenth to fifth. If the indica tions given by the tests are reliable, this boy will rise still higher in the opinion of the foreman. There were several similar cases. In one, the foreman’s original rank was e 'ght, his subsequent rank four, and the rank in all the tests four. Another man was ranked by the foreman first as five, then as twelve, and by the tests as eleven. Still another was twelve, then eight, and six in the tests. The decided trend was to confirm the value of the ranks which had been obtained on the basis of the tests. The eleventh man according to the foreman was twelfth according to the tests; the first, first; the tenth, ninth; the second, third, etc. In brief, the testimony of the tests, given ^mediately by a half hour’s examination, was a remark able forecast of what the opinion of the foreman-instructor ^as to be after having known the men and trained them Pensively for a period of several weeks. No conclusive decision as to the value of these tests can h e based upon only twelve cases. However, it is almost ^possible to obtain a large number of apprentices who have been trained under uniform conditions, for an equal ^ en gth of time, by the same instructors. Preliminary to l he experiment under discussion we had given seven te sts to over two hundred apprentices in two of the largest Manufacturing companies in the country. However, the difficulties encountered in obtaining a uniform ranking of fach apprentice were so great that it was practically ^possible to compute the significance of the tests. The lri tensive-training shop presented greater uniformity of c °nditions than had so far been met with. ^ addition to the day shift there were two evening Masses. The pupils in these classes were tested and the

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