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

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86 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY tests. Whereas mistakes in hiring were once attributed immediately to the tests, office heads are now inclined to question their own judgment as well. The result of this change of emphasis from the personal to the impersonal has been a much more consistent treatment of clerks in general, and a much more decided conservation of human material. Snap judgments are less common than was once the case. On the other hand, there have been freq lent instances in which the tests themselves were at fault. For example, the examiner would find that certain clerks who had failed in the tests but who had nevertheless been engaged for a trial, were succeeding beyond a doubt. A more minute scrutiny of such cases usually showed that the clerk in question was engaged at work for which the tests were not in the least intended. For instance, it was once customary to give every clerk a test in the fundamentals of arithmetic. However, it frequently happened that clerks were put at work which did not involve any knowl edge of arithmetic, and therefore they often proved suc cessful even though they had done extremely poor work in this test and only fair work in the remaining tests. Such cases, frequently met with, showed not so much the inadequacy of tests in general as the inadequacy of cer tain tests for certain kinds of work. In fact, one of the most valuable features of the systematic follow up out lined was to reveal discrepancies between particular tests and particular kinds of work, and thereby point out the need for a more careful study of the varieties of clerical work and, at the same time, a more careful adapta tion of specific tests to meet these varieties. The manner in which these requirements were filled is described in following chapters.

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