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EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY 
One of the large causes of labor turnover in factories is 
the dislike for particular kinds of work, and consequently, 
every effort should be made to acquaint the applicant 
with the intended work before he is actually hired to do it. 
It may be said that the centralized training school will pre 
pare the new worker for these very conditions. But the 
actual shop conditions are hardly ever as ideal as the con 
ditions of a centralized training school are likely to be; con 
sequently the change from the centralized training school 
into the shop itself may bring with it a certain degree of dis 
illusionment and consequent dissatisfaction. This contin 
gency can not arise if the new employee is sent immediately 
to the shop in which he is expected to remain. Second, the 
fact that an applicant is chosen for a certain type of work 
and sent at once to the shop in which he is expected to suc 
ceed, places a moral obligation upon the new employee 
which no other method can produce. It puts it up to him 
to succeed or fail at that particular job. If, on the other 
hand, the employee is sent to a central school where all 
kinds of operations are being taught to a considerable 
number of applicants, the moral obligation no longer rests 
with the employee but with the school and its instructors. 
It now becomes the duty of the instructors to try the 
novice out on various types of machines and work until 
he is suited. This process manifestly involves the utmost 
degree of effort and attention. The difficulty may be 
stated in still another way. Many applicants do not know 
specifically what kind of work they wish to do. However, 
when an applicant chooses to go to a specific shop and a 
specific job, his mind is made up and his doubts are to a 
large extent settled. This state of mind is conducive to 
his success at that job. But if the individual is placed in 
a school the whole attitude of which is experimental, his