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:: XIX. The examinations at work

Collection:: Economics Books

XIX THE EXAMINATIONS AT WORK Installation: the examiner; the forms; the room; the procedure; the examiner as interviewer. Maintenance: modifications of procedure and standards. No research in vocational selection is complete which stops short at this point, ignoring responsibility for the in- stallation and maintenance of the new procedures. Having proved to the satisfaction of himself and the man- agement that the scientific method has disclosed certain ways of measuring abilities which are valid in selecting workers for the job in question and which promise an eco- nomic saving to the firm, it remains for the investigator to see that these methods are properly installed. He should also make sure that they are continued in operation either in their original form or with only such changes as are clearly demanded by changing employment conditions. He should see that changes are made only after application of the same rigorous scientific procedure which characterized the orig- inal study. Maintenance, as well as installation, is an indis- pensable stage of research in vocational selection. INSTALLATION The examiner. To administer application blanks, tests, and other examinations after they have once been developed is less of an undertaking than to carry out the original re- search. The investigator, to be free for other similar studies, will prefer to select and develop assistants to do this routine examining. An examiner should be a bright, accurate, tact- ful person, preferably with a background of experience in the plant and in the interviewing room, as well as a familiar- a 5

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