Industrial Psychology : A Brief Study

The term Industrial Psychology belongs to the 20th century, but there is a past to everything, and in relation to any particular branch of science it is always interesting to seek its forerunners, and to enquire why it became recognized as a separate field of research just at the time that it did. Every generation knows where its own shoe pinches, and in the endeavor to solve its, own problems asks different questions of nature. Sometimes no answer is forth-coming. The times may be unpropitious, and although some speculative genius may furnish a theoretical solution, the means or the knowledge are lacking to give it practical effect. Thus the problems of flying- and of bacteriological disease had to wait until the requisite materials, instruments, machines, and research could be brought into service. Sometimes, however, these are available when new problems are presented, in which case man can enter without delay into a new field of work.