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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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY I 3 8 in a good many other cases, so now we have adapted our tests to test only for the special abilities required. As long as we failed to do this, we hired a good many applicants who were high in general intelligence but not high enough in the particular ability required of them. Miss N: Yes, and we rejected many who were low in general 'ntelligence who would have done very well at certain kinds of work. You see, people have a very strong tendency to think of general intelligence as they do of education. They think of it as a thermometer, and they believe that the higher the grade or degree, the higher the intelligence. They carry the same idea into industry; for they believe that the positions in an industry are graded according to degrees of intelligence. Mr. W: Well, are they not? Miss N: Certainly not. Jobs and positions in industry are based not on degrees of intelligence, but on kinds of intelligence or ability. To be sure, every kind of ability has degrees; but it takes much finer tests than general- intelligence tests to determine what these are. Mr. W: What do you think of that, Mr. Lambert? Mr. L: I believe that Miss Nelson is right. As I said before, the employment office is interested first of all in finding out what kind of ability an applicant has, and what he can do best. As you yourself have often said, Mr. Wil liams, this is an age of specialization. We certainly find it so when it comes to filling the demands and requisitions for men and women to fill the many kinds of positions which we have here. And it seems that Miss Nelson and Miss Hurlbut have quickly reached the same opinion which I have had for a long time without quite knowing it, although they came by it in a quite different way- What is your opinion, Mr. Williams ?

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