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 367 decide which applicant he should be. On the basis of such a study a technique must be built up which will thereafter serve as a guide in obtaining the viewpoint of particular individuals, and which will reduce the effects of the prej udices and notions to which every human being natu rally yields when he tries to put himself in the place of another. This problem can once more be resolved into the terms of our introductory chapter; namely, the difference be tween home remedies and the scientific method. The various acts of imagination and guesswork by which we believe that we can adopt the viewpoint of another may be classed as home remedies. They may answer up to a certain point or as long as the consequences are not im portant. They are, however, much too full of the beliefs, traditions, and prejudices which beset every human being. They put the individual whose viewpoint is being sought entirely too much at the mercy of the individual who is trying to obtain that viewpoint. The scientific method, on the other hand, makes a much more fundamental survey of the human mind, and develops certain imper sonal guides and standards by which to arrive at individual viewpoints. And although it begins with the psychological axioms that self-esteem and self-interest are common elements in the viewpoint of every individual, it is con cerned more largely with the means by which to under stand the great variety of ways in which these fundamental elements express themselves in different individuals. Employment psychology in its entirety, therefore, is a scientific attempt to attain the applicant’s viewpoint and to understand and satisfy his self-esteem and self-interest. The reason for devoting a single chapter to the subject is only to call attention more vividly to the manner in

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