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

8o EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY been abandoned for more specific tests of intelligence.) Another test used for this purpose was the “abstract relations” test devised by Prof. Robert M. Yerkes, Major in charge of the psychological section of the army. This test can not be given here because, at the time of this writing, Prof. Yerkes had not yet put it into final form. These tests were given to fifty-two clerks. The clerks were divided into four groups of about equal numbers, each group being engaged in a different type of office work. When all the tests had been given the results were com puted and tabulated so as to bring out the following points: (i) the rank of each individual with reference to all the rest; (2) the relation of each of the four groups to each other; (3) the relation between technique and intelli gence. The results were then submitted to the office head who compared them with his records and with his own opinion of the relative merits of the various individ uals and groups. This comparison showed a very marked agreement between the testimony of the tests and the rankings of the office manager. In the first place, a com parison showed a distinct difference between the four groups, both in technique and intelligence. The compari son was made by averaging the ranks of each individual in the tests and then averaging the ranks for each group as a whole. The result of this comparison may be ex pressed as follows: Average in Technique Intelligence Time-study group .... 92 96 Ledger group .. .. 82 80 Statistical group .... 77 7i Computing machines and sorting group .... 79 69

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