Review of Employment Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Employment Psychology by Henry C. Link (see record 2005-15295-026 ). Employment Psychology is Mr. Link's second book in this ambitious field. The book is divided into four parts: Part 1, Psychological Tests; Part 2, Trade Tests and other applications of employment psychology; Part 3, Selection and Retention, and Part 4, Conclusions. Part 1-Psychological Tests-attempts to show the results of actual tests given to different types of workers, both in the office and in the shop, indicating the modifications that have been made to these tests to adapt them to differing circumstances. Under Part 2, the author's discussion of Job Analysis and the Vestibule School is clear, practical and to the point, and is in line with the best constructive thinking of the day. Part 3 is more general and theoretical although its brief chapters offer thoughtful reading to the employment manager. Taken as a whole, this is a good book, and one particularly stimulating to the student of its problems. When one realizes the unstandardized and uncharted field that it attempts to cover, one inclines to superlative commendation. Certainly it is neither a text-book nor a book for leisure hours but what it purports to be, it is. Its introducer, Dr. Thorndike, says of it "an honest, impartial account of the use of psychological tests under working conditions in a representative industry." This it is. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)