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 investigator must carefully train his interviewers to secure, from a number of workers in the occupation, accounts of the difficulties of the job. These data are analyzed and tabu- lated for frequency. Such studies have been useful in re- vising curricula for training secretaries, librarians, teachers, home-makers, pharmacists, retail salespeople, specialty salesmen, and various types of executives. The difficulty analysis supplements the duty analysis. It is sometimes fol- lowed by a listing and evaluation of the abilities deemed most desirable in the worker. These abilities as listed are often found to be stated in terms too abstract to be very useful in test construction; but the process as a whole is often helpful and suggestive for research in vocational selec- tion as well as in training. INNATE AND ACQUIRED ABILITIES The distinction between innate and acquired abilities may be disregarded in analyzing abilities and constructing tests. Most of the workers with whom the investigator deals are adults, and even in the earlier stages of a person’s develop- ment his innate and his acquired abilities are practically. indistinguishable. It has even been maintained that the distinction is entirely hypothetical. Certain it is that nearly all abilities are modifiable—subject to adaptation and im- provement with practice. The question as yet unanswered is the extent to which some of these abilities are specifically determined by native endowment. F ortunately for the in- vestigator in vocational selection, he needs to know only whether a person has the abilities in question, or the capa- city to develop these abilities. Whether these capacities were defined and limited in the germ plasm or were pro- duced through environmental influences of infancy and childhood is no present concern of his. What he requires is a measure of the applicant’s capabilities at the time of em- ployment. Just what can this man do? If he has previously 67

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