Die Entwicklung der Weißgerberei

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831935244

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232156

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 8

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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274 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY Second, it provides an opportunity to observe the moral qualities which the individual develops in the course of his work. A third and extremely important function which the vestibule school serves is to give applicants a certain amount of choice in their work. As has been already in dicated, one of the most fruitful sources of trouble in the selection of workers is the fact that they do not like the work for which they are chosen. If an applicant develops an emotional aversion for a certain shop or job, it is almost certain to result in the loss of that worker. No matter how well qualified the applicant may be so far as ability is con cerned, he is likely to leave at the first opportunity. This is a factor which employers have not taken suffi ciently into account. Too often the attitude has been: “Here is a job, take it or leave it. Next!” and the result of hiring applicants in this arbitrary fashion has been to add measurably to the immense labor turnover which has characterized industry in general. The vestibule school offers a means by which this difficulty can be in part overcome. The applicant will be hired, to begin with, according to the best judgment which the employment manager can bring to bear. He will be given the benefit of a physical and psychological examina tion, and of a sympathetic interview. After the employ ment office has selected an applicant for a particular posi tion, he will be sent into the vestibule school to be trained for the work of that position. During this period it will become possible to determine whether or not the worker shows the necessary degree of interest and liking for the task. In short, the vestibule school is a sort of laboratory in which the employee may be handled and observed under

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