Employment psychology

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

Collection:: Economics Books

THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS 189 less comprehensive in the sense that it includes some of the most common and representative types. It also in dicates the broad range over which psychological tests can be applied if the psychological method is carefully observed. Other types of work have already been success fully dealt with by other psychologists, and as time goes on, this range will undoubtedly'increase very greatly. The question which is probably of most interest to industrial leaders and to organization heads is the choice of men for higher positions, executives, planners, organiz ers—the so-called big men. Can tests be applied which will make it possible to discover men of large caliber and large capabilities; men who have the ability to plan and execute great projects; men who stand head and shoulders above their fellow men? Can tests make it possible to select the exceptional man, the genius? This question must frankly be answered in the negative. The psycho logical method is at the present stage of its development unable to select men who possess the exceptional qualities required by the exceptional position. The reasons for this limitation have already been fur nished in the description of the psychological method con tained in the preceding chapters. In the first place, psychology, like every other science, must proceed from the simple to the complex. The psychologist must first seek to apply tests to the more ordinary kinds of work, Work which he can analyze and understand. The ex periments described here deal, for the most part, with work °f such a nature. Although it is conceivable that the psychological method be applied to types of work which the psychologist does not understand, still, such a pro cedure will be, at the best, haphazard and unreliable. An tntelligent application of tests requires, on the part of the

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Employment psychology

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation