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 383 and larger wages, and sometimes even the desire for a bit of violence and excitement to make up for the otherwise undisturbed monotony of his days. The operation which is so simple that it requires no particular training or edu cation commands a dignity and respect which is corre spondingly meager. The good wages which piece-workers usually receive partly compensate for this lack. How ever, piece-work wages have had the effect of increasing rather than diminishing the restlessness of the workers. The unexpectedly high wages which one class was able to earn upset the entire labor market and added enor mously to the labor turnover. This unforeseen increase in the earnings of piece-workers, and consequent unrest among all other workers, made it necessary for industries to readjust wages from the very bottom to the very top of the scale. Laborers, clerks, journeymen, and even salaried officers had to be included in this general read justment. No one realizes better than the leaders of industry who have lived through the rapid progress in the division of labor, how much painful truth the above assertions con tain, and probably no group of men is more anxious to meet this problem in a fundamental way. The condition is present. Labor has been divided into minute and highly volatile parts. No amount of coercion, either upon the part of industrial leaders as a group or laborers as a union, can bring about the cure. No amount of preaching or doctrine as to the relative duties of capital toward labor and labor toward capital can make employment conditions healthy. Among the many lessons which the war has brought home is the fact that labor is capital and capital is labor. The practical solution of this prob lem can not be attained by steering a nice middle course

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