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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37 2 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY viewpoint, his desires and aversions, has been the central and dynamic factor; and therefore, the superstructure of employment psychology, like that of mathematics, rests upon a broad and substantial basis. Several objections are likely to be raised to what has here been described as a scientific and thoroughgoing method of obtaining the applicant’s point of view in cori- trast with the superficial individualistic and imaginative method. In the first place, it may be objected that the scientific method tends to reduce every variety of human being to a class or a type, and that, in doing this, it loses that very power of penetration and fine insight which belong naturally to the unfettered imagination. There is a certain degree of truth in this statement. The scien tist does tend to classify individuals and reduce them to the level of types, and in doing this he loses sight of some of their finer individual differences. But the ordi nary judge of human nature, the man who judges by intui tion or insight or imagination, usually has just as strong a tendency to classify individuals and reduce them to types. The real difference is that he does not make his classifications consistently or systematically. His intui tion or “hunch” may lead him to make one classification at one time and another at some other time. Consequently though he can always classify individuals somewhere, it is quite difficult to predict where he will classify them next. As a result of this indefiniteness he escapes the appearance of making any classification whatsoever. This method or rather lack of method has at least the merit of spontaneity, but it is somewhat unsatisfactory for practical purposes— especially in view of the fact that the classifications of two individuals are seldom likely to agree. The scien tist differs from the individual who classifies by intuition

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