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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THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS I9I A second impediment in the way of selecting big men by tests is the necessity of trying out preliminary tests on a large group of individuals all doing exactly the same kind of work. Unless tests are tried on a large scale, the probable errors are likely to make the results worthless; and unless all the individuals involved are doing the same kind of work, it is impossible to compare their relative ability as workers with their relative ability in the various tests. In the experiments described here, there were generally twenty or more subjects in each group. And m most cases, the members of the various groups were engaged in exactly the same kind of work. This condition is very common in factories, where quantity production and the fine division of labor have made it necessary for huge groups of individuals to engage in the same process °f production. However, the higher we go in the scale °f work, the more difficult it is to find this condition. Very few men in important positions are engaged in tasks tvhich are exactly the same, and therefore, it is almost impossible to compare them with each other so as to ob tain a record of their relative abilities. Even where the names of a number of positions are alike, it by no means follows that the tasks performed are also alike. No one is more familiar with this condition than the employment manager whose duty it is to secure men for a large number °f important positions alike in name but very different m fact. Finally, even if the members of a group are engaged in the same kind of work, it is essential that the work be of s uch a nature as to furnish an objective measure of pro duction. By an objective measure of production is lUeant simply an impersonal record of the amount and Quality of work done by each individual. We have seen

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