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, LABOR, AND INDUSTRY 379 were nonexistent. Therefore, if failure to comprehend the nature of workers has in the past rebounded to their harm, anything which tends to remove this ignorance must be to their advantage. When manufacturers begin to devote the same careful thought to their human equip ment that they have hitherto vouchsafed their mechani cal equipment, it is an unmistakable sign that the interests and welfare of the workers will receive a more sympathetic consideration than has heretofore been the case. The fact that this attention may take the form of applying scientific methods to employment problems and treating human beings as if they were machines must therefore be recorded as a tribute rather than as an insult. It is the surest possible sign of the increased value which has been attributed to the workmen. Even if the increased interest of the industrial leader in the nature of his human material is actuated by the most selfish motives, the re sults can not help being to the advantage of the worker. In order to understand correctly the place of employ ment psychology in this program, and its respective rela tions to industry and labor, it is necessary to consider the conditions to which employment psychology owes its im portance. Employment psychology is obviously a re sponse to the all important question of labor turnover. The amount of labor turnover in the last few years has been such as to entail a staggering loss, a loss which has affected every individual and every enterprise in a meas urable degree. Labor and industry alike have suffered by the excessive labor turnover. This condition is an unhealthy one. In fact, the unemployment or the im proper employment indicated by the labor turnover may be considered as essentially a disease. Steady employ ment is or should be the normal and healthy state of

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