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ADAPTABILITY OF OLDER WORKERS TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: PERFORMANCE IN RETRAINING *
Author(s) -
TANNENBAUM Arnold S.,
GRENHOLM Gary
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-0597.1962.tb00453.x
Subject(s) - research center , library science , retraining , social research , sociology , adaptability , citation , psychology , management , public relations , social science , political science , computer science , law , economics
be as favourable to this end as possible. In case of need, he must seek out the causes of non-adjustment and propose steps for remedying it. Adjzcstment and guidance, under the Mi,nistry for National Education, form a collective task, in which the specialists-counselling psychologists, medical officers and social workers-collaborate, together with teachers and schoolmasters. The method of working of the guidance councils in the observation cycle is an illustration of this. The counselling psychologist has no authority to take complete personal responsibility for the proposed guidance, but his work, while keeping its own character, gains in effectiveness through collaboration with the other members of the council. Counselling pqchologists have an important collective r61e to play in studying the general organisational problems of education, in enabling the intellectual resources of the country to be more thoroughly investigated and used, and in informing young people and their families about economic prospects and the labour market. In particular, as regards the move towards greater democracy in education which was set on foot in the Reform, they are asked to consider as a matter of priority “steps to be taken concerning children who are capable of being guided into more advanced or more prolonged courses of study than those they have undertaken or are about to undertake”. These general and collective tasks can be carried out with full effectiveness only when the psychological and guidance centres are adequately staffed. Only then will this public service be able to play the full part in the nation’s welfare which should be its portion. An approach to the problems along these lines will also then enable individual cases to be seen in better perspective and to be more satisfactorily dealt with, when viewed from the social and human angle which counselling psychologists keep constantly to. the fore.