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

THE OBSERVATIONAL METHOD 2 4 7 which she later displayed. An electrician’s ability to write as shown by his application blank is likely to be a very poor sign of his ability to set up motors. At best, the process of employment is a staged process, and the activities which an applicant is likely to manifest under these staged conditions are not the activities which go to make up his truest self. And to judge him by the irrelevant acts which he commits under these unnatural conditions is to do him and the industry concerned a grave injustice. The difficulty just described is a fundamental difficulty and one which has been universally recognized. Never theless, it can be in a large measure overcome. One way in which to mitigate it is to make it possible for the applicant to express his true self in terms of relevant rather than irrelevant actions. The interview and the employment mechanism must be so arranged as to enable him to give an actual demonstration of his ability. For instance, if a man applies for work as a lathe hand, a lathe should be in readiness and the man should be given a few representative tasks under the eyes of an expert mechanic. The manner in which he goes about these tasks—it will not be neces sary to complete them—will enable the expert to place an estimate on the ability of the applicant. A man who claims to be an all-round tool maker can be given a similar trial. In fact, it is advisable to have in the immediate vicinity of the employment office a complete equipment of repre sentative machines and operations which can be used for this purpose. In this way, a large number of applicants can be given an opportunity actually to demonstrate their ability, and thus furnish a fairly reliable basis upon which to make an estimate. The probable objection to this plan is that it ties up a

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