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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420 APPENDIX Rating: Apply formula I. Point of reference is 150 units in 150 seconds; RU, 150 units, Ru, 1 second. Applying formula to sample record above,—— - ~)° — = .81 160 20T3. Stenographic Test Description: See sample typing test and description. The same tests used for typing can be used for dictaphone and dicta tion. Instructions: “Please take down the following letter:” Exam iner hands subject a regulation notebook and a pencil (all pencils should be #2 hardness, without erasers, and kept always well sharpened). “If I go too slowly, say: ‘faster.’” Examiner dictates letter trying to keep up to the appli cant’s capacity but being very careful not to press for speed. Periods and commas should not be called, but paragraphs, colons, semi-colons, dashes, etc., should. Time is taken. After the applicant has finished taking the dictation, she is placed before a machine and told to insert her paper, adjust her margins, and type the salutation of the letter she has just taken down. “Now copy the rest of the letter quickly and carefully. If you get stuck in any one place, skip it and go on with the next part. All right? Start.” Subject should be allowed to complete the letter. Record: Number of test,-time taken for dictation, time taken for transcription, number of mistakes. Rating: In rating this test, the time taken for dictation and transcription shall be added together since both belong essentially to the same test. Apply formula II. The point of reference is the perfect completion of the test in 6 min utes; RU in this particular test is 150; errors shall be de ducted from this according to the scale of values given. Ru is 2.4 seconds, that is, 6 minutes (reference time) divided by RU (150). If the test is done in 7 minutes or 420 seconds

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