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 I. Psychological tests

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THE SAYYID AND AFGHAN DYNASTIES 75 while for purposes of control the parganas were grouped in districts, now named sarkdr. The general attitude of the administration is shown in the instructions given to the district officers that ‘if the people, from any lawlessness or rebellious spirit, created a disturbance regarding the col- lection of the revenue, they were so to eradicate and destroy them with punishment and chastisement that their wicked- ness and rebellion should not spread to others,”’—an obvious restatement of the principle on which Sher Shah had acted when he was managing his father’s Assignment. In regard to assessment, however, the King's views had changed. As manager, he had allowed the peasants to choose the method they preferred; as King, he imposed the method of Measurement on practically the whole of his dominions, and various passages show that its successful operation was the test by which his officers were judged. Thus in the Punjab hills, the Governor held such firm possession “that no man dared to breathe in opposition to him, and he col- lected the revenue by measurement of land from the hill people”; while the Governor of Sambhal (in Rohilkhand) “so humbled and overcame by the sword the contumacious zamindars [Chiefs] of those parts that they did not rebel even when he ordered them to cut down their jungles .. . and they reformed and repented them of their thieving and highway robberies, and they paid in at the city their revenue according to the measurements.”! Measurement then was enforced even in notoriously rebellious tracts, and the only recorded exception to its application is in the distant country round Multan, which had suffered greatly from disorder, and the acquisition of which gave peculiar pleasure to the King. Here the Governor was ordered to repeople the country, to observe the local customs, and to take only a fourth share of the produce as revenue.! The conditions obviously justified exceptional treatment in this tract, and there may also have been exceptions elsewhere, though none are recorded; but there can be no doubt that Measurement was the general rule in practice, and not merely in theory. ! Elliot, iv. 415, 416. t Elliot, iv. 399: Makhzan-i Afghani, 1.0. (Ethé) 60, f. 121.

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