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 I. Psychological tests

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24 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY girls would correspond with their daily production or output of shells. If it could be demonstrated that the best workers did best in certain tests, and that the poorest workers did the poorest work in these tests, then it would be reasonable to assume, subject to further proof or dis proof, that these tests gave a reliable indication of the workers’ ability at inspection. And it would further be reasonable to assume that these tests, given to applicants whose ability as inspectors was an unknown quantity, would enable the employment office to select those who had certain qualities necessary for success at this work. Only those applicants who showed a certain degree of skill in these tests would be selected for the type of work on which these tests had been found significant. This, in brief, is the method of trying out tests, the details of which will become clear in the course of the experiment. After the type of work for this experiment had been decided upon, the next step was to make a careful and in tensive study of the qualifications involved in doing that work. The work of inspecting shells was done at a table like an upturned shallow box. Upon this hollow table was dumped a large box of brass shells, not yet loaded, and all of exactly the same kind. The work of each girl was to inspect these shells and throw out those that were defective. In doing this, a girl would first gather up a large handful of shells, as many as could be piled in one hand, being careful to have all of them pointing in the same direction. Then she would put both hands around the shells and turn them all up so as to expose their in sides. She would then look down into every shell for dents, scratches, stains, and other very minute defects. When any such defect was discovered, the shell was skill fully extracted from the pile and thrown into one of three

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