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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374 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY ualistic and haphazard method of ascertaining points of view a more reliable and scientific method. Finally, it may be protested that the methods here described are altogether too disinterested and mechanical. It may be claimed that they work upon an individual as a machine works upon raw material, without sympathy and without the human touch. To be sure, it does seem to be the tendency of all scientific methods to reduce things to a perfect mechanism. The ideal employment method is undoubtedly an immense machine which would receive applicants of all kinds at one end, automatically sort, interview, and record them, and finally turn them out at the other end nicely labeled with the job to which they are to go. Those who are horrified at such a pros pect have little to fear; for it will be many a day before this consummation is reached. Instead of comparing scientific selection with a machine it is much more reason able to compare it with the practice of medicine. No doubt the modern practice of medicine may seem like butchery compared with the gentle home remedies of our imaginative forefathers. The appliances of the physi cian make a most threatening array and who does not quail at the mechanisms of the operating room ? And yet, we do not generally think of medicine as disinterested and as mechanical. The surgeon may take our best friend and rearrange his entire anatomy without our ac cusing him of being cold-hearted; for medicine is a tech nique which is larger than the particular intentions of a particular physician. The entire aim of medicine is the welfare of the human being. Particular physicians may be mechanical and disinterested in their attitude toward their patients. However, the generous aim of their science far outshadows their own pettiness. With

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