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Science and Common Sense in Working with Men applies practical psychology to everyday management. This edition shows how modern personnel work blends knowledge with sound, real‑world judgment to improve how we hire, place, and develop workers.
The book contrasts old, personal approaches with scalable systems for large organizations. It explains why simply knowing a worker’s name isn’t enough, and how details like education, aptitude, and motivation affect job fit. It also explores how to balance data from mental and trade tests with the human side of management to create a stable, efficient workforce.
- How to know your workers beyond surface impressions—and why that matters for performance.
- Ways to assess technical ability, mental alertness, and capacity for growth.
- How to place and train employees to match their strengths with the job.
- Risks and limits of testing, and how to use multiple facts for fair decisions.
Ideal for readers of HR, shop floor supervision, and leaders seeking practical, evidence‑based approaches to people management.
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Let us jump fifty years. The small factory has given place to the large factory. The com pany Of ten employees is now a company of from two hundred to twenty thousand. The old per sonal contact has dissolved - although Often the desire to retain it, on the part of both manage ment and employee, remains. Ordinarily the em ployer knows little more about his men than what he learns from references regarding their previous experience and the ability displayed in their pres ent work.
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It has been the intention of the authors to offer in these pages a plea for the recognition of a new point of view in dealing with men in industry.
The old idea of thinking of men as so many kilograms of muscular energy, to be bought, exploited, and scrapped when occasion demands, is reaping the harvest it richly deserves.
Burst, likewise, is the bubble of paternalism which sought to determine for labor what was good for it and feed it accordingly.
Executives are now coming to realize that their workers are not a bulk mass but a group of individuals. They are recognizing that these workers differ in the things they are fitted to do and capable of doing; that they differ, likewise, in their interests, ambitions, and the things that seem to them desirable; and that as men of differing capacities and desires they require individual adjustment to the opportunities offered them in the field of industry.
In Chapters I-VIII we have attempted to describe how men vary in capacities of one sort and another and how science may be pressed into service to assist in discovering these variations.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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