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

Collection:: Economics Books

CRITERIA OF VOCATIONAL SUCCESS 23 the driver to avoid. The car maintenance department attempts to minimize those due to mechanical defects. If the purpose of the investigator is to reduce the number of accidents by better selection, he must use as many cri- teria as there are types of accidents. He has to construct tests independently for measuring the ability required to avoid each type of accident. It is clear that one test or a battery of tests cannot be expected to predict accidents of all types. One test may predict accidents due to emotional instability and another test accidents due to some physio- logical defect. Snow used each of the first five types of accidents as his criteria for the evaluation of tests. But he was still faced with difficulties. To quote his own words: The accident data on each driver are obtained in this way: When a driver has an accident it is recorded against him. All accidents, however, are not equal in the degree to which the driver is the cause. There are several variables. The driver contributes to some accidents to a greater degree than to others, For instance, a driver hits a telegraph pole which is rotted; the pole breaks and no one is injured. Another driver has the same sort of accident, except that the pole he strikes is not at all rotted and his passenger is injured. The consequences are different, but the cause is the same. Then there is the factor of time—the length of service of the man, and his previous experience. One driver in his first two months has, say, two accidents, while another has but one acci- dent in three months, then has three in the next two weeks. In such a case, one must remember that some drivers have accidents relatively often at the start, but relatively seldom after a short period. The reason may be that these men have never driven before, or that it takes them longer to adjust themselves to the new conditions, but once they do learn they make very good drivers. On the other hand, some men have relatively no accidents at the start, but later develop a tendency toward them. Perhaps they are quick learners, or have had previous experience in driv- Ing, and once the newness of the position is worn off, they soon let up and become less careful. But how is one to classify and evaluate accidents under such conditions? There is also a weather factor. A driver who during a heavy ic

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