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

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 150 employment purposes than general vocabulary tests or vocabulary tests per se. Although specific language tests like those given have been of undoubted value in the selection of employees, experience has hitherto tended to prove that their chief value lies in their ability to eliminate the most unfit. Those who know nothing whatsoever about a certain kind of work will fail signally in these tests, and thereby eliminate themselves from the necessity of further inter viewing. On the other hand, there are those who have a bowing acquaintance with a certain kind of work, sufficient to enable them to pass the language tests. Actual trials, however, may reveal that their verbal ability was some what in excess of their actual ability. In spite of this limitation, language tests, when properly devised and applied, are of great help in the selection of the best workers available. LITERACY TESTS One of the great industrial problems of the day is the problem of literacy. When a foreman or gang boss gives a set of orders and finds a little later that his orders have been entirely misunderstood and that as a result great damage has been done, his patience is sorely tried. And yet this is only a single, though typical, instance of the results of illiteracy. Recently, this problem became par ticularly acute in a large manufacturing concern, the principal difficulty arising over the inability of many machine operators to make out their own work tickets. In order to make out these tickets, only the simplest knowledge of arithmetic and English was required. Nevertheless, so frequent had been the mistakes in addi tion and subtraction and in failure to understand the

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