Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1744885710

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-117895

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Baasch, Ernst http://d-nb.info/gnd/117692018

Title:: Holländische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: VI, 632 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Kapitel. Aufstieg und Niedergang der holländischen Wirtschaft zur Zeit der Republik

Collection:: Economics Books

A PRACTICAL COMBINATION OF EMPLOYMENT METHODS 353 manager will recognize and at the same time deplore. Such applicants should be handled by interviewers as material of the utmost value, since their freedom from any original preference allows a wide range in deciding where they will fit best. After the application blanks of these candidates have been carefully examined to deter mine so far as possible their preliminary experience and training, some limitations can immediately be made re garding the general field of work for which each is fitted. It now behooves the psychologist to bring into play a series of leading tests which will enable him to tell still more definitely where the applicant will fit best. In one or two of these tests the applicant will undoubtedly be better than in the rest, and these, then, will furnish a clue as to what further direction the more specific tests shall take. For example, in the work upon which these chapters are based the undecided candidate was frequently given the leading tests for the work of inspecting, assem bling, machine operating, and clerical work, and when it was apparent that the candidate excelled in one of these tests, the remaining tests for that specific work were given in order to determine more definitely still whether the applicant was fitted for this particular kind of work. Frequently, when newcomers applied for general clerical work they were given an arithmetical test, a filing test, a sorting test, and a posting or copying test in order to determine for what special kind of clerical work they should be further examined. This may seem like a long, expensive, and roundabout way to select applicants, but it is very much shorter and more direct than the ordinary, haphazard fashion of trying out an applicant for several days or even weeks at one kind of work after another until months elapse before the worker strikes his metier.

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