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 I. Psychological tests

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY DEFINED 17 You would not—not if you expected to hold your job. And yet, that is what you are doing with respect to the public education system of California. In 1916 the rail roads of this state paid in operative taxes $7,151,583. Of this sum 51 per cent, or $3,647,300, was used for pur poses of public education, 'The boys and girls sent you from, the public schools you take into your service, sometimes after a perfunctory mental examination, generally with none; in other words, you waive inspection, and then complain of the character of the material after it has reached you and been paid for.” What has psychology done to solve these problems and to introduce into the employment methods of to day a more scientific procedure? The greatest single contribution of scientific psychology to the solution of this problem has been the application of mental tests. A mental test is a device, similar to a measuring instru ment in any of the sciences, by which certain mental activities can be accurately measured. The use of mental tests is not absolutely new or unfamiliar. All formal examinations may be regarded as coming under the gen eral category of mental tests. A written examination which is absolutely alike for all those taking it, and for which every person is allowed exactly the same amount of time, is a good example of tests in general. Such tests have been used quite commonly in schools, as require ments for entrance into college, and for similar purposes. The civil-service system is a good example, outside of the field of psychology, of the development of standard men tal tests. The civil-service tests are standardized for all parts of the country and are given under conditions that approach uniformity. This is what gives them their value. It is evident, therefore, that the use of psycholog-

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