Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

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Author:: Bingham, Walter Van Dyke http://d-nb.info/gnd/123042593; Freyd, Max

Title:: Procedures in employment psychology

Place of publication:: Chicago & New York

Publisher:: Shaw

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XI, 269 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. The problem of selection of employees

Collection:: Economics Books

THE PROBLEM OF SELECTION lation between test performance and success at the job is high, one may be used as the sign of the other. The test performance, requiring at most a few hours, then becomes a prognosis of what the applicant will be able to accomplish at the job over a long period of time. First are discussed the grounds for selecting a job or occupation to be studied in an organization, the analysis of this occupation, and the selection or construction of tests and other instruments of measurement; then, the technique of trying out the tests and determining their validity as indicators of probable success; while a final chapter deals with the installation and use of the new aids in selection. CHOICE OF JOB OR OCCUPATION TO BE STUDIED The range and variety of occupations inviting the atten- tion of the investigator is great. Care may well be exer- cised in deciding on the ones whose study by the scientific method gives most promise of valuable results. Not every occupation can profitably be made a subject of scientific study. This the investigator must realize if he wishes to avoid disappointment and failure. The scientific method requires the satisfaction of certain well-defined requirements. Where these conditions are absent, the in- vestigator must acknowledge that the scientific method can- not function. Other methods must suffice until conditions are made right for the introduction of scientific methods. Even where conditions permit the use of scientific proce- dure, economic considerations may not warrant such a study. Before deciding on an investigation of selection methods in an occupation, there is need of answers to these five ques- tions: 1. Does a problem of selection actually exist in this occu- pation? Every scientific investigation aims to solve a prob- lem. It may happen that the problem here defines itself concretely in the form of excessive labor turnover, low pro- 0

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