Psychology's entrepreneurs and the marketing of industrial psychology.

Abstract

Between 1880 and 1930, entrepreneurial individuals in academic psychology and engineering converged on a common interest in the side of enterprise. Both disciplines subsequently overlapped in marketing their professional business services. Separating from academic psychology, applied psychologists alluded to being human engineers offering a personnel selection technology to industry. Conversely, scientific management diverged from engineering with psychological claims of fostering a 'mental revolution of management-labor cooperation. Although psychology's testing technology was accepted, scientific management's psychological claims were challenged. This article details the entrepreneurial individuals (e.g., F. W. Taylor, H. L. Gantt, H. S. Person, H. Munsterberg, W. D. Scott, and W. V. Bingham), disciplinary marketing, and historical context surrounding these developments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658. Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: Burnham-Accident-Prone.

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