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

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3°8 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY one of the fundamental laws of psychology; namely, the law of the transfer of practice. This law states that prac tice in one kind of work does not necessarily mean ability in another kind. We can sum up the results of these observations in the form of a principle or law, as follows: Two or more individuals can be compared with each other on the ground of productiveness only if they are both pro ducing the same thing. This leads us to another consideration. If employees are to be compared on the basis of productiveness they must not only be doing work of the same kind but they must be doing it under exactly the same conditions. For example, if a hundred girls are inspecting parts and fifty of them are working in a close, poorly lighted room with an unhandy lay-out for their work, it would not be fair to compare their output with that of fifty girls in a large, well-lighted room with an improved lay-out. Or, to use another example, it would not be fair to compare two tool makers on the basis of output if one of them were using the latest kind of machinery while the other had to work at machines that were almost obsolete. This may be formulated in the following law: Two or more employees producing the same article can be compared on the basis of productiveness only when they are working under uniform conditions. A third consideration enters into the determination of comparative productiveness; namely, the time-study factor. It is impossible to call one man more productive than another unless both men are working on a piece-work or task basis. As long as men are paid a straight salary or day rate, they all tend to produce about the same quantity

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