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 oI ability is ended before he begins to make practical use of so-called general tests of mental alertness, output of energy, and the like. He will ordinarily find that the more specific he makes his own tests, the closer they will predict ability to do the work in question. But the varied samplings of ability made by the standard intelligence tests undoubtedly have their predictive value also. A worker who can do his tasks well is nevertheless apt to become discontented and restless if he is able to do work much more difficult and exacting than his job requires. Dissatisfaction and labor turnover traceable to such maladjustments are sometimes predictable from intelligence test data. Ability to learn certain kinds of occupational tasks is likewise significantly correlated with intelligence test score. For these reasons the investigator will not hesitate to include appropriate general tests in his program of examinations, even though he may be skeptical of the theory of the general common factor, regarding which controversies still rage. At the same time, no shrewd investigator will limit him- self to any single test for an assumed general ability. If he is interested in intelligence, he will use one test for intelli- gence in manipulating mechanisms, another for intelligence in dealing with people, a third for intelligence as applied to ideas, words, concepts, written symbols. Indeed he will choose his test according to the kind of mechanical con- trivances to be manipulated, the social level or type of situation in which social intelligence is to be demanded, or the particular realms of abstract ideas in which clear, quick, and accurate thinking is to be sought. He will go as far in the direction of measuring specific abilities as the nature of his problem permits. RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF ABILITIES Before attempting to construct an examination for any particular item in his analysis of the abilities required, the i]

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