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

J 52 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY This test was given first to thirty machine operators in a large shop. It was found that some of the best operators were poorest in this test and vice versa. In other words, literacy was not essential to operating ability. It was obvious, therefore, that if this test were used as a basis for selection, some extremely good operators would be elim inated. For this reason, it was decided to give the tests in the employment office in an experimental rather than in a final way, pending the further determination of the practical results. Over one hundred applicants were given this test and hired regardless of their work in it. At the same time, however, the spatial perceptions form-board test described in Chapter IV was also given. The value of this test was immediately apparent, both because of the ease with which it could be given and the qualities which it tested. Any individual, of any tongue, could understand quickly the essential problem; namely, putting the pieces back into their proper place. And in doing this, a certain kind and degree of intelligence were also involved. From the outset, it was evident that there was no agree ment between literacy and ability in the form-board test. Each of the two tests involved a different kind of ability. In the next place, a follow-up, initiated to find out what would have been the results if the literacy test had been used as a basis of selection, showed once more that there was no consistent agreement between literacy and ability as a machine operator. In fact, if this test had been used as a criterion, fully forty per cent of those who later be came good operators would have been eliminated. This, at a time when labor was very difficult to obtain, would have been quite disastrous. On the other hand, the form- board test showed a positive correlation with the subse

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