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 VESTIBULE SCHOOL 271 manifested than at rest. But neither a momentary- observation nor a brief psychological examination can actually determine which qualities the individual possesses or to what extent. Although brief tests give no certain indication as to the nature of the applicant’s character, it may be said with certainty that whatever valuable moral qualities an applicant possesses will be most likely to develop if the applicant is assigned to the work for which he is best qualified. Again and again it has been demonstrated, in the course of these experiments, that the qualities of laziness and discontent shown by a worker were not inherent qualities, but were due to the fact that the worker was not fitted for his particular task. When transferred to another kind of work which, as indicated by a psy chological examination, was more suitable, it also appeared time and again that the same employee would become a satisfied and consistent worker. On the other hand, there have been many workers, according to their performance in the tests well fitted for their work, who still were dis gruntled and lazy. How can we account for the moral traits which these workers manifested? Here, again, the root of the trouble may be mal-adaptation. A further ex amination, either by tests or by an inquiry into a worker’s antecedents and ambitions, may show that he is better qualified for some other type of work as well. His present failure may be due not to inherent laziness but to an ambition to do something else. If this worker is given the kind of work which he prefers and is just as able to do, he may manifest an entirely different set of moral qualities. To be sure there are cases where laziness, unsteadiness, dishonesty, etc., are inherent and manifest themselves

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