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 2. Are there more applicants than jobs? If the number of available applicants is less than the number of jobs that must be filled, then a research in selection is beside the point. Exceptions to this rule are found in those instances where greatly improved selection has decreased the number of employees required to do the work or has attracted to the employment window a larger and better group of applicants. 3. Are there enough employees doing the same kind of work to make possible a reliable study? Statistical method demands a considerable number of cases for exactness of conclusions. If only a few employees are doing the same sort of work, the findings of an investigation will have only a very low reliability when used to select from among future applicants. 4. Is there a valid and reliable criterion of success at this work? Without some dependable indication of a man’s actual success, it will be impossible to find out whether or not the proposed measurements of abilities distinguish between successful and unsuccessful employees. 5. Is the investigator assured of cooperation? A reliable study is a practical impossibility without cooperation of both workers and management. We shall assume that the investigator has selected for study a job, an occupation, or a profession, after assuring himself that a real problem of selection exists there; that the excess of applicants over vacancies is great enough to promise considerable savings as a result of improvements in selection; that the number of cases available for study is large enough to warrant statistical reliability in the findings; that a dependable criterion of success is to be had; and that the research will not be seriously hampered by lack of active cooperation. The job chosen may be a highly responsible post such as branch manager or design engineer. Or choice may have rested on an important but more restricted occu- pation, such as that of chemical analyst, draftsman, accoun- I1

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