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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y EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY other qualities, is of little importance; in fact, effusiveness is a detriment. The interview method and the rating scale method both proved useful in determining the relative im- portance of the abilities needed in retail salespeople. We have emphasized the importance of making a com- prehensive analysis of the worker and assembling a list of items with reference not only to activities and abilities but also to every phase of human variability which is subject to measurement in one way or another and whose share in vocational accomplishment may be determined. In addi- tion to the items listed above, the investigator may at his own discretion study such variables as the quality of the worker’s references, judgments from photographs, self- ratings by the worker, his motives in applying for the posi- tion, his ambitions, and the like. Although some resistance may be anticipated on the part of both workers and man- agement to such minute inquiry, nevertheless if the examina- tion is skilfully constructed and tact is employed in its presentation the most important items in the analysis can be covered. When this is judiciously done, items of real significance for vocational prediction are apt to be discov- ered. The measurement of intelligence, under the great impetus of the results obtained in the United States Army during the World War, played a dominant part in vocational measurement for a few years. But farsighted investigators have been discovering usefulness in other methods of mea- suring vocational determinants also, such as the statistical evaluation of personal history and interest questionnaires. Meanwhile, slow but steady progress is being made in the measurement of what may prove to be the most potent of all the vocational determinants—traits of personality. The greatest progress in vocational measurement will beyond doubt come from the application of the experimental method of psychology to the material of the psychiatric diagnosis and the physiological examination. 74

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