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 285 original uncertainty and indecision will be increased rather than cured, and he will therefore be deprived of one of the most powerful factors in his success. In the third place, when a new employee is sent to a shop, the sole duty of the instructor in the chop is to help that em ployee to succeed in a particular line of work. In the centralized training school, however, the general attitude of the instructor will inevitably be experimental and he will be obliged to train his pupils by the “trial and error” method. In this way a great deal of time may be lost in the process of “trying out” pupils on various types of work before the right kind of work is finally hit upon. This will defeat the very purpose for which the school is established; namely, the making of successful operators in the shortest possible time. Fourth, the decentralized school is less likely to raise unfavorable contrasts between the various classes of work. If a variety of operations and machines are collected in a central school, there will be a very strong gravitation on the part of all employees toward the cleaner and more desirable kinds of work. This difficulty can be largely avoided if the novice is not placed in an environment which encourages him to draw such disturbing contrasts. The suggested objections to the centralized training school may evoke the warm protest that this is the only method which is democratic and fair to new employees, since it is the only method which allows the employee to make an intelligent study and selection of the various kinds of work being done. It may be said that the other plan is too paternalistic, too coercive, and that it is morally un sound in so far as it fails to give every individual complete freedom of action in the choosing of an occupation. While admitting the partial truth of this contention, the practical

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