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 III. Selection and retention

Collection:: Economics Books

PART III SELECTION AND RETENTION A very common notion among industrial and employ ment managers is that all their problems will be solved when a scheme has been devised which will make it possi ble to select the right man for the right place. A scheme which will do this, they believe, will do away with the enormous labor turnover which is so characteristic of industry to-day, and which adds such tremendous difficul ties to the problems of production. The right man in the right place is a slogan to conjure with in commercial circles. It sounds as though it might well be the broad and genuine remedy for industrial as well as all other social ills. However, at the risk of seeming sensational, it must be said that industries to-day, especially the larger or ganizations, are suffering not so much from inability to select the right man for the right place as from inability to know when the right man for the right place has been selected. To such an extent is this true that it can further be said that even if industries were in possession of a per fect system of selection, and were able to use it perfectly, their labor turnover would still remain mysteriously high. Moreover, this high labor turnover would be in a very large measure due to the inability to recognize when the right man for the right place had been chosen. The business man will not let these statements pass un challenged. In anticipation of his challenge the following question is proposed for consideration: How is it possible 293

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