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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1 82 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY numerable misfits, or rather, nojhs, men and women with out any special training or occupation, or with a training that leads to nothing in particular. As long as only a fraction of the population was required to work, this fact was not flagrantly evident; but as soon as the stress of war made some kind of work incumbent upon every body, the discrepancy became plain. Because of the un readiness of educational institutions, the work of re fitting and reeducating a people fell upon the industrial world. The success with which the problem was met by industries in all countries is one of the outstanding features of the war and a standing lesson to all educators. In the future there will be a much closer cooperation between educational and industrial institutions, and the problem of vocational guidance will receive much more careful attention. The application of tests in this connection will be of considerable value. In addition to the selection and training of workers for the more advanced types of work, work which requires special ability and training, there are many kinds of work in every large industry which do not deserve the name vocation. A vocation implies work which requires a cer tain degree of education, experience, and training, such as are required by a business, a profession, or a trade. It implies particularly the presence of features so inter esting that they are capable of engaging a man’s entire attention and ambition. A vocation is often desired as much for its own sake as for the sake of the financial reward which it brings. However, there are many kinds of work which do not possess these characteristics. A job analysis which covered the work of over eighteen thousand people showed that seventy-six per cent of the jobs required no particular previous experience or

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