Choosing employees by mental and physical tests . ustice lies not in establishing equivalencybetween pay and performance, which is as elemental as havingaccurate and certified scales in measuring the weight of whatis sold or bought, but in retaining a man, whether by employeror union, in a position to which he is constitutionally un-adapted and for which he is unfit. When Harrington Emerson wrote these sentences in hisessay on the Fair Deal (the fifth of the Twelve Principles ofEfficiency *), his utterance was to a great extent that of theprophet—the preacher of an ideal. Now, six years later,
Choosing employees by mental and physical tests . ustice lies not in establishing equivalencybetween pay and performance, which is as elemental as havingaccurate and certified scales in measuring the weight of whatis sold or bought, but in retaining a man, whether by employeror union, in a position to which he is constitutionally un-adapted and for which he is unfit. When Harrington Emerson wrote these sentences in hisessay on the Fair Deal (the fifth of the Twelve Principles ofEfficiency *), his utterance was to a great extent that of theprophet—the preacher of an ideal. Now, six years later, speaks as the practitioner of a profession in which theideal is carried out in workable form. His book, therefore,combines the interest of a pioneers journal with that of amanual of practice in an art destined henceforth to exerciseincreasing influence upon industrial prosperity and industrial peace. Chakles Buxton Going. September, 1916. * Published by The Engineering Magazine Co., New York. PART ITHE FIELD OF LABOR STANDARDIZATION. WILLIAM F. KEMBLE(The Author) Mr. Kemble is engaged in introducing systems for stand-ardizing the general working forces of commercial andmanufacturing concerns. Chapter I p THE PRACTICAL POSSIBILITIES The increase of profits that may be secured by adoptingeasily workable test-systems for choosing employees, is provenby typical cases found in recent practice. This is followed bya graphic description of the actual application of such teststo piece-workers, typists, bookkeepers, and clerks. We seethe labor-standardizer at work, and the applicants underexamination by match-board tests for right-hand and left-hand dexterity, ambidexterity, eye-and-hand co-ordination,range of eye-sight, mathematical speed and accuracy, com-prehension and imitation. ^TFI could find any way of choosing and hiring em--*? ployees who were one-half as good, relatively, asthe machines I can buy, my success would be enor-mous, said a manufacturer in the western Un
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