Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

Document type:: Monograph

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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PREFACE Tu1s manual outlines a procedure for developing, evalu- ating, and installing measurement methods in vocational selection. It explains how to construct vocational tests and how to determine their reliability and validity. The con- struction and validation of rating scales, interest question- naires, application forms, interview methods, and similar devices used in determining aptitudes also come within its scope. So complex is the task of occupational analysis and indi- vidual placement, so numerous are the independent variables, that to some it has seemed futile to expect the ideals of science and the methods of measurement to be applicable. Others have gone to an opposite extreme, seeing in the pre- cision of test technique a quick relief from the uncertainties of personal impression. Neither of these views is justified. Measurement in vocational selection has gradually shown itself to be a feasible though slowly attainable goal. The techniques of experiment and statistical method have had, here as elsewhere, their notable triumphs. But science is not an easy mistress. She opens no broad highroad to suc- cess in selecting employees. Only a pseudo-science, ignorant of statistical requirements and the standards of proof, could pretend to teach how to read character at sight or claim 100% accuracy in vocational selection. The search for genuinely scientific means of gaging abil- ities, demonstrably sound in principle and at the same time practicable, economical, useful in the routine of hiring and placement, is in itself a rather complicated process. This process of research, this adaptation of the universal prin- ciples of inductive logic or scientific method to the particular task of discovering, developing, and testing new methods of personnel selection, forms the subject-matter of this manual. 8)

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