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:: III. Criteria of vocational success

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CRITERIA OF VOCATIONAL SUCCESS harmony in vocational ideals may turn out to be the crux of the employment problem. Studies of the professions bring out more clearly the social importance of the problem of vocational success. What constitutes success as a doctor, a journalist, or a clergyman? Foster (53), in his study of the careers of the Harvard Class of ’94 as one means of estimating the merit of the plan of requiring a specified amount of concentration and scattering of elective courses, used an original and appropriate method of gaging success. The alumni whom he studied were engaged in a great variety of occupations, each perhaps with a different standard of success. His first problem was to find a basis for comparing all these men with each other. The criterion of success which he adopted was that the alumnus be rated successful by at least two of the three judges who knew the class intimately, each judge having been asked to designate “those men who had achieved the kind of success which he would be glad to have Harvard College promote, if possible, by the administration of the curriculum.” Such an approach although relying on subjective opinion makes at least a beginning in the critical consideration of success in the professions. In a larger sense, vocational accomplichment is a function of our civilization. Standards vary from one age to another and from one continent to another. The ancient Greek or the modern Hindu cannot be judged by the same standards as the Canadian. Even such closely related stocks as the English and the American show important differences in their vocational ideals and aspirations. Such considera- tions will, however, lead the investigator far afield. Atten- tion must be directed toward the criteria which the business or industry itself can provide and which it will consider sound. SUGGESTED CRITERIA OF SUCCESS Mention will here be made of 1 3 kinds of criteria of vo- cational accomplishment by which psychological tests and 33

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