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

54 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY that the existence of these three functions should soon become apparent. The first experiment was concerned with inspectors, and, although it was originally confined to one shop only, its scope rapidly extended oyer a group of other shops which were devoted entirely to inspection of a very similar nature. The present experiment was made in the field of assembling and consists of an attempt to discover tests bringing out the essential qualities which go to make a successful assembler. The assembling with which this experiment was con cerned was that of small gun parts. The particular in fluence which led up to the experiment was the belief that a large amount of the assembling hitherto done by men could be done just as well by women. This was at the time when the substitution of women for men had become a critical matter in the war industries. The experimenter found that this opinion had already been conceived and worked out by the general foreman of the assembling shops. This foreman had made a careful analysis of the work and had made up a program according to which women were to be introduced. However, the question which still re mained to be answered was: What kind of girls will be able to do this work and how are they to be obtained? This was the question which the psychologist was particu larly anxious to answer. Since there were no girls doing this work at the time it was impossible to do what had been done in the previous experiment; that is, try out a set of tests on a group of workers in order to discover certain significant tests. If a sufficiently large group of men had been doing this work, it might have been possible to try tests out on them. Then, if any tests were discovered to have a high correlation, they could be given to girl applicants on the assumption

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