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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3^2 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY answered. Undoubtedly, both were contributing factors. The lack of experts made it necessary to divide the work, while, in turn, the division of labor made expert workers unnecessary. The grand result, however, has been the breaking down of operations and simplifying of processes until less and less skill is required to perform any one of them, and until more and more workers are eligible for the task. This trend was still more accentuated by the exigencies of the war. And now it is possible for almost any man or woman to go into a factory and in a day or a week become an acceptable operator, and earn a desir able week’s pay. In fact, the entire tendency in industry has been to place a premium upon the uneducated worker. The high labor turnover, the unhealthy state of employ ment, which prevailed even in the face of a most dire need for labor, was the logical and inevitable result of this great development. An operation which can be learned in an hour, a day, or a week, possesses none of the elements which make for stability. The simpler the operation and the less time required to learn it, the less interest and mental effort it demands. Once such an operation or task is acquired, nothing more remains for the worker to do except to watch his fellow men, to brood probably upon his own hopeless condition, the more favor able condition of some of his neighbors, the inadequacy of the wage he receives, the pettiness of his bosses, and an infinite number of other details which may come into his mind. The unhealthy results arising from an unoccupied mind are proverbial. The worker whose work is so highly standardized as to allow him to become a mere automaton with a mind which may be anywhere but at work, is a fruitful field for all kinds of unrest. He is bound to be assailed by the desire for a change, the desire for larger

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