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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i8o EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY mental or natural unfitness for his original work, the case becomes still more complicated and urgent. Shall he be given a new Course of instruction or shall he be allowed to continue with his original work? The answer to this ques tion evidently depends upon a large variety of factors, such as: Can it be determined whether or not he has natural ability in some other direction? Will the new kind of work be sufficiently satisfying and profitable to justify the change? Is the individual’s age, physical condition, and so forth such as to make the change advisable? Most important, however, is the necessity of determining before hand whether a person’s ability in some other direction is such as to justify the change. Here again, there are in numerable cases which arise in every large industry, and the chances for haphazard and expensive experimenting are all too obvious. Every precaution must be taken by an organization, both for its own sake and for the sake of its workers, that experiments in vocational re adjustments—transfers, as they are frequently called—' be conducted with discrimination and care. One of the most important factors in vocational selec tion is the factor of the individual’s choice. Many reasons determine the individual’s choice of a vocation, but nearly all of them rest upon some individual peculiarity or bias. One boy may want to be a blacksmith because his father was one. Another, for the very same reason, may want to be anything but a blacksmith. Another boy may want to be an automobile mechanic because he likes to ride around the country. Still another may wish to become an electrician because he has seen an electrician doing some work at his house and the electrician good-naturedly allowed him to help with some of the work. This boy’s companion may want to become an electrician also be-

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