An Introduction to the theory of statistics

The work of the Stock Exchange

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Identifikator:: 1028803699

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-43559

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fisher, Irving http://d-nb.info/gnd/118533541; Brown, Harry Gunnison http://d-nb.info/gnd/123548152

Title:: Die Kaufkraft des Geldes

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 435 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Kapitel. Störung der Gleichung und der Kaufkraft in Perioden des Übergangs

Collection:: Economics Books

VII CLERKS Clerical work of one kind or another is a necessary- adjunct to almost any kind of enterprise. The choice °f clerks is, therefore, a problem of universal interest. The fact that much clerical work requires a quite different type of worker than is required by most factory work, m akes the problem still more interesting. As a rule, office workers must have a grammar-school or high-school e ducation in order to meet the demands of their work. The time required to “break in” new clerks is commensu- r ately long. Even for the more routine work it usually takes from two weeks to two months to develop a new cl erk. As a consequence, mistakes in selection mean a correspondingly big loss to the organization. It is most desirable to select at the outset those applicants whose w °rk w iH justify this training. For the purpose of dis covering and standardizing tests which should accomplish this object, a series of experiments was conducted at Va rious times and under various circumstances. During the course of the first experiment tests were given to hfty-two men and women doing clerical and near-clerical ^°rk. An aggregate number of four hundred and forty te sts was given. The office serving as the field for this ex periment was a departmental office in which large groups clerks were engaged on very similar work. This office *as chosen largely because of the fact that its manager had been making a careful study of his clerks and their 77

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