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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THE VOCATIONAL VALUE OF TESTS 173 educated and specially qualified young men a general knowledge of the work of the organization, with a view to preparing them to fill the higher executive positions. In the first flush of enthusiasm with which various organizations adopted an educational program, the work of education was often carried on in a most profligate and indiscriminating manner. Often it was done entirely ■without consideration for the needs and benefits of the organization fostering it, and as if the industry were obliged to educate and uplift, regardlessly, every one of its employees. The result of these attempts has been a most unfavorable discrepancy between the energy expended and the results achieved. Instead of solving the vocational problems of the organization, the practice created new problems which the organization was left to settle. Out of these earlier unsuccessful trials, the following princi ples have emerged: First, the primary aim of the educa tional work carried on within an industrial organization ls to train employees for immediate usefulness within the organization itself. Secondly, the more general forms of e ducation can be better carried on and, from every point °f view, should be conducted by community rather than private enterprise. Even when vocational education is considered in its most practical aspect, the organization still raises the Questions: How far shall our educational facilities be ex tended? How shall we guide the right employee into the tight course of instruction ? How can we guard ourselves against wasting effort by teaching the wrong thing to the Strong man? These are exactly the questions which the employment manager must also ask when he is in the act °f hiring a new employee; for nearly all work involves a eertain amount of training and education, and any mistake

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