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

Collection:: Economics Books

QUESTION TRADE TESTS 225 say, “No, it doesn’t, but I need the money.” Neither can a large variety of answers be expected to such a question as: “Have you had much trouble with the fore men for whom you worked?” The question: “Are you nervous?” will certainly not encourage an applicant to ad mit the fact even if it is true. When the attention of the foreman who made out this list was called to these points and the real purpose of the questions explained to him, he was very much chagrined and said: “I ought to have known better, but to tell the truth, I made them out in a hurry and did not give them enough thought. Leave them with me, and I will make out another set which will be closer to what I think you want.” The second attempt was a very great improvement on the first. It is given below in full because it will serve as a basis for the method of asking questions which is advocated here and which has already been developed to an unheard-of extent in con nection with the classification of personnel for military and industrial purposes. 1. Q. What experience have you had as a gun assem bler? A. More than five years on various makes, both rifle and shotgun. 2. Q. Name the most important adjustments on a gun. A. Breeching, locking, trigger, chamber, firing pin, barrel and sight alignment. 3. Q. Why do you consider breeching important? A. Because if the gun is not breeched correctly the cartridge will be loose and cause unnecessary wear on chamber. 4. Q. Why lock? A. If lock is not correctly adjusted the gun may fly open and injure the operator while shooting. 5. O. Why trigger? A. If trigger pull is too light, gun may jar off and injure some one, or if too heavy will cause poor targeting.

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