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Chap. IV, 53; follow up on, 58 Assembling gun parts, 55 Assigning workers, 206 Attitude of workers towards tests, 76; of examiner, 160 Choice of work, 180 Gassification of clerks, 107; of individuals, 174, 388 Clerical, tests for technique, 79; for general intelligence, 79; work, different kinds of, 104; survey of, 105; peculiar de- scriptions of, 106 Clerks, Chap. VII, 77; breaking in new, Tj; experiments with, 79; requisition for, 105; classi- fication of, 107 Computing machine operators, 94. 95. 98 Correcting tests, 158 Correlations, for inspectors, 33; assemblers, 59; apprentices, 125, 128; between selection and retention, 316 Cube test, 124 Curves drawn for inspection tests, 44 Binet-Simon tests, 134 Blank, application, 216, 343 Bogardus fatigue apparatus, 113 Card, job analysis, 106 Casual methods of handling hu- man material, 16 Character analysis, 240 Checking up results of inspection tests, 49 Defectives, 136, 185 Demonstration, by examiner, 163; by applicant, 247 Derivation of word science, 1 1 Dial machines, 11 j Difference between inspection and gauging, 35 Different kinds of clerical work, 104 Directions, giving, 161 437 438 INDEX Discovering moral qualities, 197, 202 Duplication of tests, 167 Dynamometer, hand, 57. Early ideas of psychology, 9 Education to decrease labor turn- over, 384 Educational depari:mehts in in- dustry, 172 Efficiency form, 3 10 Employees, incapable, 277; pro- ductiveness of, 302; attendance of, 303. 313; record of, 342; transfer of, 179, 358 Employment office, centralized, 252; forms used in, 356; psy- chology defined. Chap. I, 3, 5, 13; labor, and industry. Chap. XXVI, 376 Examiner, attitude of, 160 Executives, selecting, 189 Filing tests, 108 Flexibility of psychological stand- ards, 46 Follow up on clerks, 84, 103 Foreigners, testing, 186 Foreman's opinion of tests given to assemblers, 60 Form-board tests, 124 Forms, used in employment work, 3S6 Gauging, 34 Grammar test, 93 Group tests, 168 Guide to interviewer, 217 Hand dynamometer, 57 "Hire and fire" method of em- ployment, 13 Hiring, by specification, iii; mechanical, 239 How to ask questions and the development of question trade tests. Chap. XVHI, 215 Human material, handling, 16 Impulse, detecting, 179 Individual progress report, 325, 328, 329, 370 Initiative, 236 Innate ability, testing, 167 Inspection, shell, description, 24; analysis of, 25 Intelligence, general. Chap. XII, 130; definition of, 130; higher grades of, 137 Interviewers, variability of, 14, 16; guide to, 217; impressions, 23 S> 253; first steps of, 340 Introduction of employee to his place of work, 355 Job analysis. Chap. XX, 251; card, 106; purpose, 260; factory, 261; use of, 268 Judging by appearances, 231, 236 Labor turnover, 380; unions, 386 Laboratory, the portable. Chap. V, 62; description of, 63; value of, 65; possible improve- ment of, 66 Lack of standard in observational method, 244 INDEX 439 Language and literacy tests. Chap. XIII, 92, 140 Loyalty, 219 Machine operators. Chap. X, 112; turnover among, 112; correla- tions, 119; grading, 122 Manual dexterity tests, 56 Measure of comparative produc- tiveness. Chap. XXII, 297 Measuring by limited impressions. Chap. XXIII, 320 Mechanical hiring, 239 Medicine, evolution of, 7 Mental tests, definition, 17 Method, scientific, 10; "Hire and fire," 13; of trying-out tests, 24; of starting tests, 157 Moral qualities, discovering, 197, 202, 270, 277, 304 National Association of corpora- tion schools, 171 Nervousness of applicants, IJS Numerical substitution tests, 97 Observation, value of, 235, 242 Observing appearances. Chap. XIX, 23 1 ; relevant actions, 245 Office vestibule school, 275 Operators, slow and fast, 120 Part whole relations tests, 140 Pencils, use of, 165 Personal judgments, unreliability of, 39. 43, 84, 233. 330 Practical combination of em- ployment methods, Chap. XXIV, 340 Preliminary trials of trade tests, 228 Preventing old employees from leaving, 357 Production records, 191 Productiveness of employee, 302; measuring, 307 Promotions, 264, 321 Psychological tests, 3; standards, 46 Psychology, Employment, de- fined. Chap. I, 3, Sj 13; early ideas of, 9 Qualities of workers to be marked, 324 Questions, importance, 215; sug- gestions in, 220; to gun as- semblers, 224 Recording tests, 159 Requirements of assembling, 71 Requisition for clerks, 105 Rhythm, 118, 121 Routine workers, 182 Schools, apprentice, 128 Science, derivation, 11 Scientific method, 10; application of the word, 1 1 Scope of psychological tests. Chap. XVI, 188 Scott three-hole test, 120 Selecting girls as assemblers. Chap. IV, S3 Shell inspection, description, 24; analysis of, 25 Shock absorbers, 155 Spatial perception tests, 57 44° INDEX Specification, for clerical work, 109; hiring by, ill Spelling test, 90 Stenographers, typists, and comp- tometrists, Chap. VIII, 88, 93, 177 Stenquist test, 72, 124 Stop watch, 159 Substitution test, 91 Suggestion, powers of, 207; in questions, 220 Survey of clerical work, 105 Technique of giving tests. Chap. XIV, IS4 Testing men assemblers. Chap. VI, 69; to specification. Chap. IX, 103; which discovers po- tential skill, 350 Tests, psychological, 3; mental, 17; extensive application of, 19; testing, 20; trying out, 24; manual dexterity, 56; spatial perception, 57; Stenquist, 72; clerical, 79; typist, 90; stenog- raphers, 93 ; comptometrists, 94; filing, 108; relative value of, no; cube, 124; form-board, 124, 152; Binet-Simon, 134; part whole relations, 140, 147; naming opposites, 141; verb object, 141; adjective noun, 141; context, 142, 146; com- pletion, 142; verbal, 144; tool list, 148; vocabulary, 149; lit- eracy, 150; correcting, 158; recording, 159; giving a series of, 161; trade. Chap. XVIII, 215; blue prints, 227; periodic, 279 Trade tests, Chap. XVIII, 215; preliminary trials, 228 Training course, 204 Transcription, 93 Transfers, 179, 358 Turnover among machine oper- ators, 112 Types of work tested, 188 Typists, 89 Unreliability of personal judg- ments, 39, 43, 233 Value of observation, 235, 242 Variability of interviewers, 14, 16 Vestibule schools. Chap. XXI, 270; definition of, 273; pur- pose, 273; office, 27s; teachers for, 280; factory, 282; kinds, 282; centralized, 283; services of, 288 Vocational value of tests, Chap. XV, 171 Weakness of old method of employing, 14 Printed in the United States of America CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 050 103 369 DATE DUE mV^ =aa — \4 mxi^^ — «^ CAVL.OnD rRINTCDINU.k.A. 