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 IV. Conclusion

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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 356 enjoys. Others take each individual employee as he comes in and introduce him to his future supervisor, and make him feel generally welcome. These methods are desirable and helpful. However, by far the most funda mental means of introduction is the vestibule or intro ductory training school. Wherever possible, new workers should be introduced to their work through the mediation of experts and under conditions conducive to proper instruction. The nature of the vestibule school as a means of preparing new workers for the tasks to which they have been assigned has already been thoroughly discussed. Wherever there is a good-sized body of sales men or saleswomen, office workers, machine operators, assemblers, textile workers, or workers of almost any kind engaged in similar work, a training school is practi cable and advisable and new employees should be put through a period of conditioning. The modern industrial situation has demonstrated the importance of this item in employment work, and the lesson will never be for gotten. All employment work is governed by a set of forms or blanks, the -paper basis for all procedures. Such forms are quite essential for recording and controlling in a uni form way each step in the employment process. It may seem desirable to give such a set of forms here as illus trations of the steps which have been described; namely, the card for recording the results of the psychological tests (see Appendix); and the individual activity records (see Chapters XXII and XXIII). Besides these forms there will be necessary the application blank, the medical- examination record, the introduction slip, and the com prehensive record which is kept permanently in the em ployment files. The exact character of these records

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