Edward N. Hay. Series 2. Reference files, 1935-1957.

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Hay, Edward N. (Edward Northup), 1891-1958. Edward N. Hay. Series 2. Reference files, 1935-1957.

Edward N. Hay. Series 2. Reference files, 1935-1957.

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Contain materials on job evaluation and performance appraisal. Job evaluation files include materials on evaluation in banks, including a guide chart designed by Hay re the profile method of job evaluation (1957); data on the organization of a job description writing project by Hay; and his manual of procedures for the installation of salary and wage management through job evaluation. Companies referred to in these files include F.W. Dodge Corporation, California Texas Oil Company, Vickers Inc., Sacco-Lowell Shops, General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, Granite Trust Company, Irving Trust Company, Philadelphia Gas Works Company, and Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trusts. Additionally, statistics and studies on measuring job evaluation reliability, on job comparison, and on executive development. The materials on performance appraisal include the LOMA merit rating scales (1950); a publication of Alfred Cardall on the compa-ratio (control of salary expense); and numerous other articles and reports. The file of materials on testing includes an Activity Vector Analysis Study (1953-1954) with psychological evaluation sheets (a study to determine how well the activity vector analysis measures personality characteristics); a supervisory test study (preliminary report on group validation) for the American Gas Association; materials on Briggs-Myers Type Indicator (personality testing); materials on clerical research (1940-1952); manuscript notes from a conference on personnel measurement (1951) by the employee relations department of Standard Oil Company; manuscript by Hay (with drafts and charts) "Critique on Clerical Testing"; manuscript technical section on prediction from selected cutting scores, selecting multiple cutoff scores to predict job performance; estimated vs. actual IQ materials, including data sheets, manuscript notes on validity of judgments in an interview and notes on the relationship between actual and estimated IQ; manuscript on test validity and test reliability in a clerical population (with drafts), test scales, tables for adjusted profiles (men, women), and study reliability. Test materials on measurement include manuscripts on absolute measurement, on the theory of scales of measurement, and a case study (1952) in testing supervisors; evaluation procedures for the Milwaukee Plan of Aptitude Testing; a manuscript by Hay entitled "Clerical Testing: Comparative Validities"; C-D hand correlation charts, predictions of clerical success in a life insurance company (1951); monthly report (1955) on test sales; correspondence of Hay (1951) with John B. Harker (research assistant, First National Bank of Boston) regarding test norms; materials on statistical methods, and papers on work-sampling, reliability of self-rating, statistical sampling, and learning curves; testing validity materials (1949-1950); a manuscript (1948) on the effect of the use of a "warm-up" test; and a paper on selection of multiple cutting scores from the Wherry Test Selection Method. Tests collected by Hay (1935-1952) include test forms, examiner's manuals and interpretations of data for a variety of intelligence, personality, skill, and occupation-related tests. Consist of Hay's reference files, including subject files, largely on job evaluation, merit or performance rating; test files, including test documentation and sample tests; and a file of Hay's writings.

6.5 linear ft.

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