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

Collection:: Economics Books

Ill APPLYING THE RESULTS At the time of this writing the tests found significant in the course of the experiment just described had been given to over 2,900 applicants for the work of inspection. Of this number over 800 had been assigned to work other than that of inspection. These facts are in them selves some testimony as to the practical application pf the results of the experiment. However, this chapter ls concerned not so much with the extent to which the tests were applied, as with the question of just how and With what success they were applied. This question will be discussed in two ways: first, by showing what would have been the practical advantages had the inspectors who were tested in the course of the first experiment been tested before being hired; and secondly, how and with ^hat success the tests were later given to a large number °f new applicants who came into the employment office for work In describing what would have been the advantages if the tests had been given to those inspectors who were examined on the job, we shall first consider in detail some individual cases. One of the conspicuous instances of the Practical significance of the tests was the case of an inspec tor who was examined at the particular request of her foreman. The foreman remarked, at the time, that she one of his best girls. With this unsolicited bias in tornd, the experimenter was not surprised to find that the 39

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