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 362 plexity of this problem, the hundreds of possible varieties of men and women, races and creeds, skill and awkward ness, education and ignorance, trades and professions, represented at one time or another among the seekers for work in an employment office. To place ourselves, there fore, in the position of the typical applicant, and to ac quire his point of view, is a most complicated problem. For instead of one applicant with one point of view, we find a heterogeneous mass of applicants with a heteroge neous mixture of points of view. In short, there is no typical applicant. However, it may be possible for us to overlook, for the time being, these innumerable divergencies, and think only of those fundamental characteristics which are com mon to all applicants. No doubt, there are such constant factors. We admit it in our use of the phrase human nature; for what is human nature but certain basic emo tions, desires, or instincts which are present in all individ uals? Now, if we attempt to arrive at these fundamental forces, in so far as they are characteristic of the human individual in search of work, we may not discover them all or be infallible in those which we do find. Neverthe less, such an attempt will contribute something to our success in adopting the applicant’s point of view, and modifying the process of employment accordingly. One of the most obvious qualities of human nature inherent in the applicant is the desire for a square deal. The opportunities which the employment office has of exercising or ignoring fair play are innumerable. For instance, when a number of applicants enter an employ ment office, it usually takes some time to interview them all and, unless particular care is exercised, some who ar rive first will be interviewed last and some who arrive

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