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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TFE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS 203 If he is good he is good. And if he is bad he is bad. In other words, they labor under the belief that the moral Qualities are constant qualities which are an inseparable part of a human being as scales, fur, and hide are an in separable feature of the fish, the dog, and the elephant; and further, that no matter where people are and what they are doing, their moral qualities are an invariable part °f their nature. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The moral qualities are not absolute. They are not blanket qualities which cover an individual’s entire range °f life no matter under what circumstances he may live. On the contrary, moral traits are relative, and their nature depends upon a very wide variety of external economic, social and bodily conditions. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in the selection and retention of employees. The experiments described have demonstrated nothing more conclusively than the relativity of the moral qualities. It has been found re peatedly that the listlessness or laziness of an individual at a given job was due not to any permanent moral flabbiness, but to the fact that the individual did not like the work or had not been able to do it because he lacked the necessary mental qualifications. In cases of this kind, it frequently happens that when an individual is transferred to another type of work, more nearly within the reach of his capacities and inclinations, he develops a most admirable degree of industry and energy. The same may be said of most other moral traits. Initiative is a moral quality which a worker may reveal while he is engaged in work for which his training and preparation fit him, but which may be entirely absent if he is placed, hy mistake, at work which does not come within the scope of his ability. The same may be said of punctuality and

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