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 185 wage of which he is capable. In this manner, tests fulfill a distinct vocational function; for they make it possible for the applicant to realize most quickly the happiness which constitutes his real vocation. To be sure, tests will discover many workers whose exceptional ability, either natural or acquired, will warrant their selection for a course of training which will ultimately give them genuine vocations. However, in the present stage of in dustrial development, there must constantly be a large body of men and women to do routine and monotonous Work, and it is in this large field that tests will have an extensive quasi-vocational value; for their use will enable the worker to achieve most fully those enjoyments in which his genuine vocational interests may be said to feside. A closely allied vocational problem is the assignment °f defectives to industrial work. During the course of these experiments, a small number of high-grade morons and workers of a low mental age were discovered. Fre quently these workers were doing work of which they were entirely incapable. The work of shell inspection, at which some of these defectives were engaged, requires a memory for about twenty-five different kinds of possible defects and a constant and alert attention in order to catch these defects as the shells pass by. Manifestly, even a high-grade moron would fail to possess the qualities necessary for carrying on this work. However, it must not be thought that the purpose of giving tests is to eliminate such in dividuals entirely. There are many automatic machines which require an operator with only the most elementary kind of intelligence and attention; and there is a large a mount of manual work which involves only the learn- ln g of a few simple movements which are continuously

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