Personnel Equipment in Factory Inspection
| Published date | 01 May 1924 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622411300143 |
| Date | 01 May 1924 |
| Author | Mary Anderson |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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PERSONNEL
EQUIPMENT
IN
FACTORY
INSPECTION
the
candidate
would
first
be
placed
at
his
ease
so
as
to
avoid
artificiality
and
then
engaged
in
conversation
with
the
examiners
on
topics
relating
to
his
personal
history
and
in
general
the
service
called
for
by
an
immigrant
inspector.
A
graphic
scale
was
con-
structed,
on
which
the
examiners
could
express
their
judgment
of
the
person
examined
in
respect
to
each
of
the
six
qualities
mentioned.
Where
an
oral
interview
is
used
in
employment
tests
it
is
of
prime
impor-
tance
that
it
be
given
under
standard-
ized
conditions.
IX.
CONCLUSION
In
this
article
an
effort
has
been
made
to
present
briefly
illustrations
of
different
types
of
employment
tests
used
in
the
selection
and
promotion
of
employes
in
the
public
service
of
the
federal,
state
and
municipal
govern-
ments
of
this
country.
It
is
the
belief
of
the
writer
that
the
technique
of
employment
selection,
as
it
has
been
and
still
is
being
worked
out
by
the
numerous
civil
service
commis-
sions
and
affiliated
organizations
in
the
United
States,
is
not
only
well
adapted
to
meet
the
requirement
that &dquo;The
best
shall
serve
the
state,&dquo;
but
that
much
of
this
technique
and
of
the
experience
of
these
commissions
is
ca-
pable
of
being
used,
and
in
a
steadily
increased
degree
is
actually
being
used
by
industrial
corporations
and
private
employers
of
labor
in
this
country.
Before
the
war
relatively
few
private
corporations
used
any
form
of
test
other
than
an
oral
interview
given
without
standardizing
the
conditions.
Not
infrequently
this
degenerated
into
the &dquo;once
over&dquo;
by
the
foreman
stand-
ing
at
the
gate
and
facing
the
Monday
morning
crowd
in
the
front
street.
As
far
as
we
have
been
able
to
ascer-
tain
by
questionnaires
sent
to
the
private
employers
of
labor,
a
clear
majority
of
the
leading
private
con-
cerns
now
use
formal
tests
of
some
sort
in
selecting
future
employes.
The
economy
incident
to
careful
selection
of
employes
is
perhaps
a
mat-
ter
of
guess
work,
but
the
estimate
of
one
careful
writer
in
the
Quarterly
Publication
of
the
Statistical
Associa-
tion
in
March,
1923,
suggests
that
it
runs
into
three
figures
for
each
employe.
Personnel
Equipment
in
Factory
Inspection
By
MARY
ANDERSON
Director,
Women’s
Bureau,
U.
S.
Department
of
Labor
THE
state
factory
inspector
holds
a
A
key
position
in
the
administration
and
development
of
the
standards
which
have
been
set
up
for
the
employ-
ment
of
men,
women
and
children.
In
the
words
of
the
International
Labour
Review,
reporting
the
findings
of
the
fifth
session
of
the
International
La-
bor
Conference,
the
factory
inspector
has
come
in
the
modern
state
to
be
the
pillar
upon
which
the
enforcement
of
much
civili-
zation-saving
legislation
now
rests,
and
one
of
the
principal
sources
of
improvement
in
the
future.
The
importance
of
securing
the
right
sort
of
personnel
for
a
factory
inspec-
tion
staff
cannot
be
too
strongly
emphasized.
It
usually
is
a
&dquo;poor
workman
who
blames
his
tools,&dquo;
but
in
this
case
the
entire
object
and
function
of
the
administration
of
labor
laws
can
be
completely
defeated
if
factory
in-
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