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

228 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY at this point that the difference between valuable and use less tests will be discovered or overlooked. The following occurrence will help to show the impor tance of preliminary trials. A set of trade tests for tool makers developed and standardized in a certain industry were installed in the employment office of another com pany. After they had been in use for a few months, three of the former expert tool makers of that company who had left to work with another concern returned and asked for their old positions. They were given the trade tests and two of the men failed to obtain even an apprentice rating while the third made a low journeyman’s rating. All of these men had been considered among the best in the shop, and their failure in the tests therefore aroused the sus picions of the employment manager. He decided to give the tests to the seventy-four tool makers in that particular shop, and out of that number forty-seven failed completely, twenty-one were rated as apprentices, and only six ob tained a journeyman’s rating. An analysis of the causes for this low correlation showed that the methods pursued in this shop were slightly different from those used in the shop where the tests had originated. Not until the tests were actually tried out under the new circumstances did the real nature of this difference become apparent. Trades and occupations are different in almost every industry to-day, and the practical significance of these dif ferences for employment will be revealed only by means of experiments and actual trials such as have been described. Valuable as trade tests are, it must not be forgotten that they are limited in their scope. As their name in dicates, they apply only to trades; that is, to occupations which involve a certain body of standard knowledge such as may be acquired during the course of an apprentice

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