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

28o EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY open, regardless of the fact that other students may have entered the school at an earlier time. This method also provides an element of competition which is a very healthy asset to the work of novices. It is a well-known psychological fact that a few minutes of actual competition daily will do more to increase a per son’s ability than hours of steady and uninspired rou tine practice. Competition, therefore, contributes toward making the new employee competent with the least possi ble delay, and serves to bring out all the more quickly whatever latent moral qualities the pupil may have in reserve. The work of the vestibule school should be so far as possible work that is actually taken over from the main office. For instance, girls who are being trained in typing or in filing should be trained largely upon the work of typing or filing as it is actually being done in the larger office for which they are being prepared. In this way, not only will the preparation of the individuals be most closely tied up with their prospective duties, but at the same time a considerable saving in the cost of conducting the school will be effected. In order to attain the maximum effectiveness, the in structors of the vestibule school should be clerks of a high grade who have not only had actual experience in the routine which they are to teach but who also possess the ability to impart their knowledge to their pupils. An in structor in every distinct type of work ought to be pro vided. The manager of such a school must be a man or woman of exceptional character, ability, and experience. He should be, first of all, a good employment manager with the necessary ability to examine and select applicants. Even if this selection is controlled by means of a specialist

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