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

THE EXAMINATIONS AT WORK portance. In factory, office, and store, among clerks, skilled tradesmen, salesmen, laborers, and minor supervisors, and in the executive ranks of large-scale enterprises, is there need of better bases of information about available men and women for use in allocating occupational opportunities. The personal problems of government also, in the civil services of municipality, state, and nation, call for the best that science can contribute. Public schools and institutions of higher education have analogous tasks in the selection and 100 80 | 60 40 2: or— _ ei —— 1914 19:0 1916 1917 1918 191. Sul Year Hired with i Figure 34: Reduction of turnover among salesmen for a life insurance com- pany by improvement in methods of hiring. The chart is read as follows: Of the salesmen hired in 1914, 40% remained with the firm in 1915, 18% in 1916, 10% in 1917, 6% in 1918, 5.5% in 1919, and 5% were still with the firm in 1920. The next descending curve gives the same information for those salesmen hired in 1915. The improved methods of selection were installed in 1916. The subsequent years brought a steady increase in the proportion of newly hired employees remaining a year or longer, as shown by the rise in the heavy lines. 231 ~

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