Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Walter Dill Scot - Industrial Psychology

Walter Dill Scott, like Hugo Munsterberg, was an originator of business psychology (later subsumed under the heading of industrial and organizational psychology). In 1903 Scott published The Theory and Practice of Advertising, followed in 1910 by Increasing Human Efficiency in Business. By 1919 he had formed The Scott Company to provide consulting services to dozens of corporations, mainly in the areas of personnel selection and increasing worker efficiency.


You can download the book Increasing Human Efficiency in Business from

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/management/IncreasingEfficiencyinBusiness/toc.html

Contents of the book



Chapter I
The Possibility of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter II
Imitation As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter III
Competition As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter IV
Loyalty As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter V
Concentration As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter VI
Wages As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter VII
Pleasure As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter VIII
The Love of the Game As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter IX
Relaxation As a Means of Increasing Human Efficiency

Chapter X
The Rate of Improvement in Efficiency

Chapter XI
Practice Plus Theory

Chapter XII
Making Experience an Asset: Judgment Formation

Chapter XIII
Capitalizing Experience--Habit Formation

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