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 company’s cash? The more definite the description of the abilities, the more likely is the analysis to be correct. Fur- thermore, when the abilities are stated in terms of actual behavior the investigator can see his way more clearly to the construction of suitable tests. The abilities should, where possible, be paired with their respective job operations. Shell inspecting, the description of which was quoted on page 21, requires the following abilities (101, p. 25): 1. Good eyesight. The defects to be detected were often so minute as to be indistinguishable to any but the best of eyes. It took the experimenter almost a minute to see one of the most common defects which these girls were required to notice in an instant. Any weakness of the eyes or marked difference between the two would be likely to show bad results in the inspection. 2. Keen visual discrimination. Good eyesight is not sufficient. The inspector, looking at a whole handful of shells, must, with a few glances, be able to recognize those which are defective and remain oblivious to those which are not. 3. Quick reaction; that is, the ability to extract, as quickly as seen, the defective shell and toss it into the appropriate box. 4. Accuracy of movement, required in picking out the right shell from the closely held handful. This requires a very peculiar kind of deftness, and, in order to facilitate it, many of the girls allow their finger nails to grow to an unusually long and sharp point. 5. Steadiness of attention. The least wavering of the eyes or letting up of the attention is likely to allow some bad shells to slip by or to lengthen the operation. One way to make the essential abilities stand out is to analyze the difficulties of the job. By finding out what errors are most frequent, what annoyances are most discon- certing, or what sorts of poor work are proving most ex- pensive, the investigator quickly brings to a focus his search for the really necessary abilities. The difficulty analysis as used by Charters (30) has as its main purpose the disclosure of specific needs for train- ing but it is serviceable also in the present connection. The 66

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