부산대학교 도서관

The article evaluates the reporting procedure on the occupational potential of disabled men in Great Britain. It deals with a group of 327 disabled men who passed through one of the Ministry of Labor's Industrial Rehabilitation Units between 1957 and 1959 and were subsequently trained in a number of practical and office occupations. The Ministry of Labor's Industrial Rehabilitation Units (IRUs) were set up after the Second World War as one of the employment services for the disabled. In 1952, at the request of the Ministry, the staff and postgraduate students of the Advanced Course in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College embarked on a project to consider this and several other methods of workshop reporting which had been proposed. The findings suggest that systematic workshop ratings, made by supervisors trained in their use, can contribute towards predicting occupational success in the IRU setting. Despite an apparently large general factor in the twelve items of the rating scale, analysis of the ratings and of their relation to other data suggests that supervisors can discriminate clearly between items concerned with workshop performance and those concerned with social behavior.