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

2 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY rainstorm knocks the rear wheel off another car is obviously not so much the cause of the accident as one who has the same sort of accident on a bright, clear day. Likewise, icy pavements are often the cause of accidents which are inexcusable in better weather. What is careful and slow driving in one case will not be so in the other. That, too, must be considered. There are even other complicating factors, such as a careless pedestrian stepping in front of the cab. Here the driver is not the cause, yet technically he has had an accident. There may be some unknown defect in the car mechanism which may cause an accident. Again the driver is not the cause, yet technically he has had an accident. These, then, are the variables: To what degree is the driver the cause of the accident? Should this be modified by the time factor, or by the weather conditions? These are very pertinent questions which must be dealt with in establishing criteria with which to standardize the tests, to test them (correlate them with actual fact), and to prorate them (determine their weight in establishing a final score). Even if we determine whether or not the driver is the cause, it is impossible to discriminate finely the extent to which he is the cause. This cannot be expressed numerically, nor can it even be accurately expressed with a rating scale. The legal department of the company, since it gets all the original information—reports from the passengers and witnesses, as well as from the drivers—attaches one of the three following opinions to each accident: gross negligence, unavoidable, question- able. Tt is this judgment we use in determining to what extent the driver is the cause of the accident. Snow’s success in applying the psychology of vocational selection to the problem of choosing cab operators rests not wholly on his ingenuity in devising and adapting tests. His critical scrutiny of his criteria and his strict adherence to them in planning his research and in evaluating its results have likewise been important. A criterion may be expressed in terms of a rough twofold or threefold classification of the workers, or in terms of such fine units of measurement that each man is distin- guished from the others in accomplishment. If the criterion, for example, is the amount sold in the course of a year, the men may be separated into two groups: those who sold 46

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