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 289 indicated by the psychological tests the ability of new employees. 2. Provides an opportunity to observe the moral qualities of new workers. 3. Provides the mechanism for bringing unskilled or untrained workers to the desired point of efficiency with the least possible delay. 4. Makes it possible to assign people more carefully to the work for which they are best fitted. 5. Permits the new employee to exercise a certain amount of choice in his work. 6. Makes it possible to break in new workers by easy stages instead of with a sudden plunge. 7. Promotes a better selection of employees by de creasing the necessity of hiring only for the immediate needs of the moment. 8. Makes it possible to pay and to rank workers on the basis of actual work done under controlled conditions. 9. Stimulates the development of new employees by making possible competitive trials. 10. Provides a center in which old employees can be renovated and unsatisfactory employees eliminated. That is, it can act both as an outlet and an inlet. 11. Acts as a shock absorber to prevent the accumula tion of too much help in one department and the lack of help in another. 12. Tends to promote standard practices in all parts of the shop and plant, and provides an excellent avenue for the plans of the industrial engineer. 13. By using actual work as a basis for its instructions, the vestibule school both reduces its cost and prepares the employee for the work to come. For the sake of clarity, it may be added that the vesti

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