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 II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

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220 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY hardly likely to answer: “Oh, the foreman was all right. It was all my fault.” Obviously not. If an ap plicant is looking for work elsewhere, it is very often because there was a hitch in his relations with his previous employers. But to stand up for these is to discredit him self, and as an ordinary human being, in search of another job, it is expecting too much of the loyalty of any individ ual to have him cast reflections upon himself. And as for the item, poor, but thinks well of us, can an applicant do anything but think well of the company with which he is trying to find work? Would any applicant be likely to say: “I don’t think much of this company, but I need a job so badly that I am willing to take it anywhere”? Questions of this kind are obviously not worth asking. In questions of all kinds, the effect of suggestion cannot be overestimated. The interviewer may ask his questions in such a way as really to predetermine the answer which he shall receive. In the item of sobriety, for instance, the interviewer may look sternly at the applicant and ask, in an almost threatening voice: “Do you drink?” The inevitable answer to a question asked in such a way is a horrified: “Oh, no, sir!” There are innumerable ways of asking this question. One might ask, following the items mentioned: “Are you a hard drinker or a moderate drinker?” The inevitable answer to this question will naturally be: “Moderate.” And one would hardly ex pect an applicant to answer to his detriment the question: “Do you get drunk often or only once in a while?” On the other hand, if an interviewer asks, with a disarming smile: “About how much do you drink?” he may get an answer somewhere near the truth. However, even this is very uncertain. Where an industry is known to refuse all applicants who are anything but total abstainers, the

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