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The article reports on the pessimistic findings of psychomotor test on sewing machine operators. The use of psychomotor tests as employee selection devices is common practice among apparel manufacturers. However, the statistical study of sewing machine operators, in eight different plant locations, fails to show a significant correlation between test scores and subsequent measured productivity. It was found out that employee production records and scores on the pin board and form board tests failed to show a relationship by Chi-square testing or a statistically significant correlation by regression analyses. At a single plant of the same company only negative correlations could be demonstrated between the results of three different specially designed psychomotor tests and observed productivity.

The article presents a study which examines the impact of confidentiality on the ratings of professional health personnel performance. The study employs three collections of Operational Efficiency Reports including the June 1959 Annual Report, the June 1958 Annual Report, and the December 1958 Confidential Report. It mentions that the study focuses on 217 subjects which include 82 Research (RES), 59 Public Health, and 76 Medical Care (MC) officers. The result of the study indicates that thee was fairly high and consistent rating intercorrelations regardless of the reporting conditions involved.

The article presents a study which investigates occupational differences among attitudinal areas in the employment condition and to consider effects of such differences for both application and research. The study uses response to the Triple Audit Employee Attitude questionnaire that was gathered from 3207 nonsupervisor employees in 26 companies. Chi-square tests was also used for combinations of occupational groups. Results show that a number of large differences are located across occupational groups and it suggests it might be needed to specify the particular attitudinal area when asking occupation.