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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264 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY the most important and practical principles which psy chology has to teach. Under the head of mental characteristics, the most important items are education, prerequisite experience, and ability in mathematics and English. Many jobs of the laboring kind can be done by workers without any education whatsoever. Others require a minimum of education in certain lines. For instance, an expert tool maker must be able to use arithmetic to a considerable extent, and a correspondence clerk must have a certain mastery of the English language. In addition to the general ability and level of knowledge implied by certain kinds and degrees of school education is the matter of preliminary experience. For certain types of work such as that of plumber, electrician, accountant, such expe rience is an essential, and the determination of this expe rience forms a very important item in choosing the right applicant for the right position. The division headed “Miscellaneous” embraces several very important and often neglected items. One of these is “Possibilities of Promotion”. The future to which a job leads is one of the most important and concrete ele ments about that job. Some jobs lead logically to other and better ones, so that the worker knows that, if his work is satisfactory, he is sure, within a reasonable time, of being promoted. Other jobs are only blind alleys into which the unwary applicant is likely to stumble and from which there is no escape except by an unwelcome tour de force, usually the man’s giving up in disgust and going elsewhere. This item, therefore, not only makes it possi ble for the employment interviewer to tell an applicant definitely what the possibilities of promotion are; it also serves as a reminder to the shop foreman that it is his duty

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