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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204 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY steadiness, qualities upon which industries are now plac ing every conceivable premium. As long as a large number of employees are engaged at work which does not in terest them and for which they have not had any par ticular training, it cannot be expected that they will strive to avoid all tardinesses and absences. The quality of loyalty is to-day one of the most stressed in industry, for it includes a large number of other desirable moral traits. However, the very foundation for loyalty is a liking for one’s work or for the resulting rewards, and this, in turn, is dependent upon the manner in which the in dividual is chosen for his work. It is extremely difficult for a worker to be loyal when the work he is doing does not call into exercise a knowledge of the trade which he has learned, or when he is unable to earn a fair week’s pay. In this connection, a statement in one of the reports by the Committee on Industrial Training in British Munition Factories is of unusual significance. According to the report of this committee, the successful factory worker was one who had the factory temperament; and the fac tory temperament was defined as: first, the patriotic loyalty aroused by the country’s need, and, secondly, the ability to earn a desirable week’s pay. The latter, it was affirmed, was almost more powerful in effect than the former. If this was true at the time when this report was made, how much more will it be true when the pa triotic stimulus is lessened? An unusual opportunity of observing the relativity of moral qualities in a general way was afforded by a train ing course, consisting of about fifteen college men who were being shifted from one shop and department to another in a systematic attempt to acquaint them with the fundamental aspects of the industry. These men

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