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

THE VOCATIONAL VALUE OF TESTS 183 training and could be learned in periods varying from one hour to one month, the average being ten days. This is typical of the modern industrial development in the division of labor. Many jobs are dull and monotonous, involving the same petty round of activities day after day, and hour by hour. They fail to engage the worker’s entire mind and they do not stimulate his imagination. In fact, they lack nearly all those characteristics which give permanency to a vocation and which encourage continuity of effort. To be sure, some people are fitted hy nature or by temperament to just such work. On the other hand, there are many who tolerate it only because circumstances have prevented them from doing anything better. Now, although jobs of this kind can not be called vo cations, the vocational value of tests is probably greater here than in any other sphere. For vocation must in this instance be defined in terms of financial success. The true Vocation of these workers consists not of the work which they actually do but of the pleasures, over and above their work, which their wages at that work enable them to gain. In other words, they are interested in work, not for its own sake, but as a means to an end. The best part of the day to them is the part which comes after work, Mien they can be with their wives and children, when they can work at their own houses, putter around their own gardens, or tinker at their own automobiles. It is in the pursuit of the hundred and one activities of this kind that the true and only vocation of this numerous body of workers exists. Therefore, the vocational value °f tests in instances of this kind consists in the selection of men and women in such a manner that they shall be assigned at once to the kind of work at which they can

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