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

SKwwMSiw 284 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY One of the large causes of labor turnover in factories is the dislike for particular kinds of work, and consequently, every effort should be made to acquaint the applicant with the intended work before he is actually hired to do it. It may be said that the centralized training school will pre pare the new worker for these very conditions. But the actual shop conditions are hardly ever as ideal as the con ditions of a centralized training school are likely to be; con sequently the change from the centralized training school into the shop itself may bring with it a certain degree of dis illusionment and consequent dissatisfaction. This contin gency can not arise if the new employee is sent immediately to the shop in which he is expected to remain. Second, the fact that an applicant is chosen for a certain type of work and sent at once to the shop in which he is expected to suc ceed, places a moral obligation upon the new employee which no other method can produce. It puts it up to him to succeed or fail at that particular job. If, on the other hand, the employee is sent to a central school where all kinds of operations are being taught to a considerable number of applicants, the moral obligation no longer rests with the employee but with the school and its instructors. It now becomes the duty of the instructors to try the novice out on various types of machines and work until he is suited. This process manifestly involves the utmost degree of effort and attention. The difficulty may be stated in still another way. Many applicants do not know specifically what kind of work they wish to do. However, when an applicant chooses to go to a specific shop and a specific job, his mind is made up and his doubts are to a large extent settled. This state of mind is conducive to his success at that job. But if the individual is placed in a school the whole attitude of which is experimental, his

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