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

184 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY most quickly succeed and at which they can make the largest wage of which they are capable. In this day of scientific management this is by no means an easy task. The fine subdivision of labor and the various piece rates or bonus rates which the task setters and time-study men have set for these operations have made it very necessary that laborers be chosen with equal care and accuracy. As a matter of common ex perience, it is well known that not every worker can suc ceed at the various tasks which have been set. This is largely due to the fact that tasks for various kinds of work are set on the basis of a study of a group of workers who have already been chosen for that particular kind of work by a process of natural selection. When studies are made, they are never based on workers who have given up the work because of their inability to succeed, but always on workers who have had at least a measure of success. When a task is set, therefore, it is not intended to be within the reach of every individual regardless of what his qualities may be, but only within the reach of certain types of workers. The task of the psychologist and the employment office is to select for the distinct types of work which exist in a factory, the type of workers who are most likely to succeed. The method which the psychologist applies in this problem has already been thoroughly described in pre vious experiments. By finding significant tests for differ ent types of work, the psychologist is enabled to guide the various applicants into those kinds of work for which their natural and acquired ability best fits them. And in doing this, psychological tests make it possible for each new worker to begin at the task at which he is most likely to succeed and at which he is likely to earn the highest

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