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:: V. Analysis of the worker

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ANALYSIS OF THE WORKER plishment in the vocation; it is made with a group of workers for observation who are well chosen with regard to this con- ception of success; and it is made to serve as a basis for the construction of scientific examinations rather than for the immediate use of the employment office. A warning is here in place. The list of essential abilities which the investigator assembles is a tentative one, for the purpose of suggesting lines of approach in the construction of examinations. He cannot state dogmatically that the list is correct, nor can he assert that each examination he later constructs will yield accurate measures of these particular abilities. If he knew all this there would be no neces- sity for carrying through the rest of the investigation. Un- fortunately, such omniscience is denied to most men. The scientific investigator must patiently seek examinations whose records bear such a close statistical relationship to success in the vocation that they may be used in the em- ployment office in selecting applicants with assurance that future vocational success is closely predicted. The investi- gator cannot choose these examinations casually. Such a procedure he would find extremely wasteful. He must have guides to follow. Consequently he does not decide on the examinations to be tried until he has analyzed the workers on the job and assembled a list of points in which he has reason to think the good workers differ from the poor ones. This list he uses as suggestive material in constructing examinations. The validation of the examinations as selec- tive instruments is ultimately accomplished by comparing their results with the criterion of vocational accomplish- ment, not with the list of abilities. The process of analyzing the worker is similar to that of analyzing the job, but the investigator focusses his atten- tion on the worker rather than on the work. He selects for observation those workers who are later to be examined by means of the tests or other measuring devices he develops. To give an outline which will fit all vocations is as im- 50

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