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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176 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY ticeship. It is necessary to discover, first of all, what this candidate’s training has been, particularly his education in mathematics. In order to ascertain this he is given a mathematical test. This test will indicate quite clearly whether the boy has had the necessary preliminary educa tion and whether he is sufficiently well up on what he has studied to warrant immediate admission into the course. However, in addition to this it is desirable to know whether the boy possesses the right kind of natural ability to make him a successful journeyman. This is a more subtle problem; but in order to obtain a forecast of the boy’s development, tests which have previously proved their significance in this respect are given. These tests, described in the chapter on tests for apprentices, do not involve education or training in any particular subject but rather the ability to think and act quickly and appro priately in certain desirable directions. When these two facts have been ascertained; namely, the boy’s education or acquired ability, and his. capacity or innate ability, it can be intelligently decided whether or not he should be taken into the apprentice course and trained in the voca tion of a tool maker or some other trade. To take another illustration, let us consider an applicant for the position of stenographer. Such a candidate may be said to have already chosen her vocation. However, it is nevertheless a question whether her choice and her training make her valuable enough in that vocation to justify her selection by the employment office. In order to decide this question it is necessary to know, first of all> whether she has the necessary education in the fundamen tals of her work. To determine this, spelling, grammar, and punctuation tests are given. Besides this, it is neces sary to know whether she has had the necessary training

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