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The Application Of The Psychophysical Law To The United States Army Officer Efficiency Reporting System, James M. Sturgeon
The Application Of The Psychophysical Law To The United States Army Officer Efficiency Reporting System, James M. Sturgeon
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Statement of the Problem: In rendering the United States Army Officer Efficiency Report, the rater is required to describe in narrative form the performance of the ratee. Too, the rater must express quantitatively his overall evaluation of the performance by placing the ratee in an adjectival, quantitative category. Army regulations declare it is imperative that the rater be consistent in these two portions of the report and that the categorical rating be justified by the narrative description. Clearly some measure of "consistency" or "justification" is needed, yet none is prescribed or even suggested.
Apart from the above two evaluations, the …
Analysis And Review Of The Job Enlargement Concept, William Henry Dyke
Analysis And Review Of The Job Enlargement Concept, William Henry Dyke
Masters Theses
Introduction:
Adam Smith stated that the division of labor is a forerunner of and a necessity to a successful economical system.2 Extended and refined, the division of labor results in the type of job specialization that Drucker refers to above - "... split up the operation into its constituent motions ..." - but job specialization goes one step farther and assigns only a few of these motions to any one operator. The division of labor of Smith's day resulted in some men being blacksmiths, some being carpenters, some being millers, etc.; but the job specialization as pioneered by Taylor, …