ANALYSIS OF THE WORKER
The broad topic of man analysis has been treated apart
from the chapter on job analysis, but this has been done for
convenience of exposition only. The job apart from the
worker who does it is an abstraction, and so, too, is the
worker apart from the job. The actual unit is the workerin-his-work.
 This is most obvious when our attention is
focused on high managerial positions. An executive post,
no matter how minutely the duties are specified, varies with
the man who fills it. The executive, also, who has been,
let us say, a superintendent, is a somewhat different person
when promoted to the general managership. The investigator
 should never forget to think of the job in terms of the
workers who perform it, and of the workers as related to
their own specific occupations.
The investigator is now faced with the task of choosing
or constructing examinations for the experimental measurement
 of the workers he has decided to study. In the selection
 or construction of these examinations he will be guided
by the estimated importance of the abilities and characteristics
 he has listed. The general principles governing the
selection of examinations will be considered in the next
chapter.

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