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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268 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY frequently the last man who can analyze his jobs ade quately. The fact that he knows them so well prevents him from describing them in any but technical and collo quial words. However, this danger will be largely avoided if every analysis is made according to the outline of specifications furnished. This outline serves to confine the analysis to certain channels and predetermined es sentials. Moreover, the entire process should be under the supervision of a group consisting of the employment manager, the medical examiner, and the psychological examiner; for the very purpose of the analysis is to pro vide a guide by which these different agencies will func tion together in choosing the right applicants for the right place. After such an analysis has been made, how is it to be used? At the present time, whenever a shop needs men it is customary to send to the employment office a requisi tion calling for six men, or three machinists, or five millers, or seven edgers, as the case may be. This manner of call ing for men by such general names and in such a wholesale fashion suggests the very evils which have just been dis cussed, namely; a very loose connection between shops and employment office. After the specifications for the various kinds of work have been made out, they can be arranged and indexed for convenient reference in the em ployment office. At the same time, the different shops will retain possession of the specifications which affect them in particular. Whenever, now, it becomes necessary for a shop to make a requisition for men it can do so in terms of these specifications. In order to simplify matters still further, the various kinds of work which are only superficially different can be summarized under a common head, and a system of symbols can be employed to expedite

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