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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186 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY repeated in exactly the same way and which, when once acquired, can be performed without the aid of attention. For such work, mental defectives are often well adapted. Indeed, they are often better fitted for it than individuals of a higher intelligence because, having very few ideas and very little mental activity, they are unable to per ceive the monotony and dullness of their work. They are themselves quite automatic, and can almost wholly lose themselves in the work which they are doing. What better solution of the problem of idiocy and undeveloped mentality can there be, from both an economic and a social standpoint, than to detect such applicants and assign them to work for which they are peculiarly adapted? There is, however, a strong tendency to confuse lack of education with lack of intelligence, a tendency which has promoted much trouble. Foremen and employment managers are too prone to think that an illiterate Pole or Russian or Italian is far down in the scale of intelli gence. Consequently, they can not understand why these stupid foreigners should object vigorously when they are put at some low grade of work, work which requires no manual or mental ingenuity and which is often merely dirty and monotonous. One of the problems of the psychologist is to find tests which will enable him to divorce intelligence from education, or rather intelligence from a particular language. This difficulty will not be so acute when immigration decreases or when the learning of English is compulsory. In the meanwhile, however, it is a genuine difficulty which must be dealt with. The form boards which have been described in the course of these experiments are especially valuable for this purpose, for they can be given to subjects regardless of education, race, or language. Their meaning is so obvious that

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