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

THE MEASURE OF COMPARATIVE PRODUCTIVENESS 309 of work. As soon as they are paid a bonus or piece-work rate, individual differences begin to increase and it be comes possible to compare employees on the basis of production. There are numerous conditions which arise to defeat the purposes of the piece-work rate and to hinder the free development of the individual. These conditions are known to most managers and we may therefore include them by suggestion in the following law: Two or more employees can be compared on the basis of productiveness only when they are allowed to produce under conditions which will encourage them to develop to their fullest capacity. It may be objected that the three conditions outlined here as essential to a comparison of individuals are too idealistic, too theoretical, too far in the future for imme diate application. As a matter of fact, they have already been realized. They are not theories but actualities. The great industrial development of the age has been the division and standardization of productive processes. All operations are being broken down into their elements, and instead of one man performing a hundred different opera tions on a single product, as in time past, we now have one hundred men performing exactly the same operation on a single part of the product. In this phenomenon, we have the fulfillment of the conditions indicated in the first two laws. The third condition is fulfilled in the generally accepted piece-work principle. These three conditions, namely, the standardization of operations, tools, and rates—already carried out to an enormous extent—are likely to be realized still more extensively. There is no prophesying what their scope will be in the coming in dustrial period.

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