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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THE APPLICANT’S POINT OF VIEW 363 last will be interviewed first. This may seem like a very trival matter, but it is really one of the utmost importance to the applicant; for a late comer who gets ahead of him may receive the very job which he himself might have re ceived. To be compelled to lose an opportunity for work in this way can not but strike him as being essentially unfair. Even when a candidate who has suffered such an inci dent does receive a job, he does not forget the bit of unfair ness which accompanied it. In fact, the degree of impartial ity and fairness which an employment office exercises in the selection of its workers may be symbolical to the appli cant of the character of the entire organization, and may color all his subsequent ideas of that organization. It therefore behooves the employment office to be impartial in its dealings even in a matter apparently so trivial as taking care to interview applicants in their proper order. In some places applicants are given numbered slips as they enter the employment office so that their sequence may be more carefully observed. A simple measure like this, particularly in places where the daily number of applicants is large, is a very genuine recognition and ac knowledgment of the applicant’s point of view. A second fundamental characteristic of all applicants is their self-esteem. Any attempt to adopt the applicant’s point of view must reckon with this force. From the most superior to the most ordinary candidate, self-esteem is a pivot point around which many actions and attitudes revolve. To show how this force may come into play during the course of employment interviews, we may take, as an illustration, the adequacy of the service. Some employment offices are almost always empty and all new comers are disposed of with the utmost dispatch. Other offices are always crowded with applicants, and it fre-

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