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

288 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY once, Consequently, the employment office must choose from among the first applicants who present themselves, even if these are not quite as good as they should be. Moreover, instead of being able to select applicants for the work which fits them best, it becomes necessary to say, in effect: “Here is a job. It is the only thing we have at the moment. Take it or leave it.” This is not con ducive to successful hiring. Moreover, there are fre quently highly desirable applicants when no jobs are available. It is a pity to have to turn them away, because quite likely they will have found work elsewhere before new jobs become available. The function of the vestibule school in overcoming this opportunistic and hand-to-mouth method is obvious. The vestibule school can hire applicants with an eye to the future. If exceptionally desirable applicants present themselves while there is no urgent demand for their services, it can hire them nevertheless, and begin training them for the future. It can also keep enough pupils in training to make it unnecessary to hire applicants for jobs which they are not fitted to do and which they take only as a jumping-off place to something else. In fact, the vestibule school provides that favorable balance of supplies which is necessary for the proper management of any establishment, whether it be a household or a large industrial organization. It is strange how principles which are so obvious in the management of the small affairs of life are so often neglected in large establishments where management has acquired the dignity of a profession. We may now briefly enumerate the services which the systematic training of a vestibule school renders the process of employment. I. Makes it possible to discover more fully than was

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