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

282 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY trained help can be drawn and into which surplus material can be withdrawn. Third, such a school can serve as a center in which the various forms and practices obtaining in different depart ments and offices will rub elbows and tend, in consequence, to become more uniform and consistent. Very frequently it is found that different parts of an organization have quite different methods of handling the same kinds of work. Manifestly, not each of them is correct; neither is it possible to send out pupils trained in all of the idio syncrasies of the various departments. The work of the school therefore may be a constant source of standard ization and improvement in methods. THE FACTORY VESTIBULE SCHOOL In general, the same principles which apply to the office vestibule school apply to the factory or shop vestibule school. The purpose of each is, first, to discover so far as possible those moral qualities and those special abilities which can not be fully determined by the initial tests; second, to train new employees under controlled condi tions in order to enable them to succeed most quickly at a given task; third, to discover the work which is best fitted to their particular abilities and dispositions. How ever, the shop vestibule school may be conducted in two ways. First, it may be conducted as a centralized school; that is, a school which is equipped with typical machines and in which typical operations are taught in a central place. Second, it may be conducted as a decentralized school. Instead of having representative machines and operations grouped in one place, a certain part of the phys ical equipment of each individual shop can be set apart

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