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

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 5 2 service could therefore be estimated, the results were as follows: Length of Service Inspectors recommended by the tests 9.56 weeks “ not recommended but hired 1.05 weeks In other words, the average term of those who were recom mended and hired on the basis of the tests was almost ten times as long as the average term of those who were hired contrary to the evidence of the tests. This is really a striking commentary on the results of these tests in so far as they affected the turnover. To summarize, individual cases showed that the per sonal judgments of the experimenter, foreman, and in structors were not nearly so reliable as the evidence of the tests. A large number of cases, represented by curves, showed that the tests made possible at once a separation between piece-workers and day-workers which was quite beyond the scope of the ordinary employment methods. This graphic representation showed also how the standards which made possible the desired distinction between appli cants was found. The careful steps by which these tests and standards were introduced into the employment routine were traced. Finally the concrete results of apply ing these tests in the employment office were presented. It was found (1) that the verdict of the foreman tended to bear out that of the tests; (2) that of a certain group studied intensively, ninety-four per cent of the success ful workers were above the standard in the tests, and all failures were failures also in the tests; (3) that those who passed the tests worked almost ten times as long as those who did not.

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