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

Collection:: Economics Books

ANALYSIS OF THE WORKER A number of investigators have found significant correla- tions between a properly weighted total score on items of this sort and success in the occupation studied. By such means it has been possible to select employees more accu- rately for life-insurance selling and for certain types of specialty selling (89). 2. Personal history. A man’s vocational tendencies are determined in great part by his early personal history, and predictions of future success should rest in part upon his past accomplishment. Below are some suggestive questions: Where was the worker born? What was the native country of his parents? What was his father’s occupation? Under what conditions was the worker brought up? How many brothers and sisters did he have? Which of his parents did the worker prefer? Which of his parents did the worker take after? Who was the dominant member of the family? What was the financial and social status of the worker's family? What occupation did his parents wish him to enter? Was his childhood such that if he had it to live over again, he would choose more cheerful conditions? Freyd, among others, has shown the worth of such topics in the differentiation of occupational groups (58). The investigator will want to use his own judgment in the selection of questions on personal history. He will be limited by the difficulty of obtaining such personal informa- tion from the worker, but the difficulties are not insurmount- able. Two groups of personal history items are so valuable in this connection that each deserves special mention: the worker’s previous occupational experience, and his educa- tion. 3. Previous experience. The worker’s occupational career should be recorded in sufficient detail to show not only the 61

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