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 20^ were naturally sufficiently interested in their work to maintain the required moral level. Nevertheless, their interests and moral traits varied noticeably as they were shifted from one shop or office to another. Certain men Were very enthusiastic about one place and quite the con trary about another. They were anxious to finish some shops as soon as possible while in others they were anxious to remain even longer than the allotted time. Not only their enthusiasm but their daily attendance, their atten tiveness, and the quality of their work were governed in a marked degree by these changing factors. Whereas one kind of work elicited the most desirable moral traits in one man, it had quite the opposite effect on another. At the end of the course all of the men found permanent positions of widely differing kinds, and, in most cases, their work was such as to elicit the best qualities in them. There are, to be sure, certain individuals who have a constitutional dislike for any work whatsoever, and there are still others who have a fixed dislike for certain kinds of work. There are also a few who manifest industry and determination at any kind of work to which they happen to be assigned. Their number, however, is scant. In the vast majority of cases, the moral traits an individual displays are determined by two variable conditions. These conditions are first, a liking for a certain kind of work for its own sake, and, secondly, a liking of the work for the sake of the rewards which it makes possible. The former is effective in the case of workers with a trade or a voca tion. The very fact that they have completed the term of apprenticeship which is required to learn their trade indicates that they possess at least some of the necessary moral qualities. In order to engage and further develop these qualities, it behooves the employment office to

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