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 387 due to a large variety of causes other than the lack of education. Workers will continue to get through and to look for positions elsewhere. The essential fact which confronts us is not a far-off possibility but an immediate and distressing fact. Education has been neglected. Many jobs have become so simple as to require almost no education or training. An enormous labor turnover has come into existence, not only through and among the unskilled and semi-skilled workers but even to a consider able extent among the skilled workers in the trades and crafts. The immediate and most pressing task in the midst of this great labor turnover is to fit, as quickly and adeptly as possible, the right person to the right place. This is the task which employment psychology attempts to accomplish. Employment psychology, by making it possible to discover the inherent and acquired ability of an individual, makes it possible also to assign the individ ual to the kind of work at which he can most quickly and satisfactorily succeed. The development and application of tests, the standardization of observation and questions, the analysis of jobs, and the conduct of vestibule or train ing schools, are all phases of employment to which the technique of psychology may be applied. Moreover, in addition to selecting the right man or woman for the right place, employment psychology seeks to provide an objective and scientific basis by which the success of selections may be reliably estimated. Without such a basis, the entire method of selecting and classifying workers rests on precarious ground. In fulfilling this purpose, employment psychology will greatly reduce the present rate of labor turnover and thereby render a marked service both to industry and to labor. There is one aspect of employment work which has as

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