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 249 himself. This is quite true. However, no employment process can ever get beyond this state of artificiality. Its degree of staginess can only be lessened. The important fact about the outlined procedure is that it stages the inter view or demonstration of an applicant in the field in which he is most at home. It enables him to act in the manner in which his trade or occupation has taught him to act, and, in this way, it greatly decreases the degree of nervous ness or embarrassment to which the applicant is subject. The logical culmination of this method is found in the psychological examination. This is the final step in choosing relevant actions on the part of the applicant and in placing the proper estimate upon these actions. First of all, the psychological method finds, by means of an experimental process, just what the relevant activities in an occupation or an operation are. This it does by means of tests which are tried out on workers whose ability is known and with whose work the tests can be compared and correlated. In this process, it also discovers the standard which ought to be met in the significant tests by those who wish to succeed at the kind of work in question. It then standardizes the manner in which these tests should be used, so that every applicant for a particular kind of work will be examined in exactly the same way, and his ability determined according to the same formula. In this way those uncertain factors due to the human equation which are present to a greater or lesser extent in all the methods described are largely eliminated; and the method of observation is finally supplemented in such a way as to make it indeed a science. From this discussion it becomes clear once more that the entire trend of employment psychology is to subordi nate irrelevant appearances to relevant actions, and the

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