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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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY possible as in the case of job analysis. This chapter offers only a suggestive classification of the most important points to be covered by the analysis as a basis for selection of tests, rating scales, and questionnaires. The items are grouped under the following eight headings: 1. Personal data 2. Personal history ~. Previous experience _. Education and training -. Physical characteristics 5. Social characteristics 7. Interests 8. Abilities Helpful suggestions may be obtained from the various per- sonality schemata and catalogs of human abilities. These should be consulted not so much to obtain an indication of what is required for the job under study as to make sure that all the most important items have been considered. The number of these lists is legion, and only a few can be men- tioned here: Allport (1), Baade, Lipmann, and Stern (4), Blackford (14), Bridges (18), Cimbal (34), Kirby (94), Link (101), Mendenhall (29), Meyer (113), Parsons (126), Partridge (127), Roget (150), Stern (171), Terman (184), Viteles (209), Webb (213), Wells (217), and Yerkes and LaRue (227). One of the most complete lists of topics which the investigator may wish to consider is found in Davenport’s Trait Book (43). TOPICS FOR A MAN ANALYSIS 1. Personal data. Under this heading are included many jtems commonly found on the application blank, such as age, sex, race or nationality, marital status, number of de- pendents, home ownership, savings and investments, and membership in social and professional organizations. Such information about the workers chosen for study can often be obtained with little trouble from the company records. 60

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