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

74 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY It will be seen that test number 51 is the only test which shows a significant correlation. In order to verify the results obtained and also because it was considered that not enough men had been examined to make the results very reliable, another set of examina tions was given about six months later. In this section of the experiment fifty-one finished gun assemblers and twenty-six action assemblers were given the spatial per ception test number 51 and in addition the Stenquist mechanical test already described. It had been hoped that by this time it would be possible to obtain piece-work records showing the comparative productiveness of the various men. However, although the men were on piece work, each man was limited to a certain number of pieces a day; therefore, it was again impossible to obtain pro duction records showing the comparative ability of the men. Again it was necessary to resort to the opinion of the foreman. On this occasion both the immediate over seer of the men and the foreman were asked to rank the men independently in five groups according to their opin ion of the productive ability of their workers. The rank ing of the men in the tests was then mathematically cor related with the ranking of the overseer and the foreman taken separately and with the combined ranking of both men. The results are given in the table on page 75. It will be seen at once that the correlations for test 51 are not as high as was the correlation found in the first part of the experiment, though high enough to encourage further experiments in the same direction. The Stenquist test shows a slightly higher correlation, although it, too, is not high enough to justify its use as a criterion in the selection of new assemblers. The correlation between the opinions of the foreman and the overseer is very high,

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