Eldridge Marchant (1 results)
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Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Robert Eldridge, Bookseller
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [ACTIVITY VECTOR ANALYSIS or AVA] An archive of manuscript material related to AVA, a diagnostic tool used in human resource departments (formerly known as personnel departments). The original notebook binding was made of a fragile "leatherette" substance. The front cover is detached but present.… Otherwise, contents are in fine condition. #1434. $125. This loose-leaf notebook contains notes and sample test forms from a weeklong-workshop held in 1957 in Rhode Island under the supervision of a representative from Walter V. Clarke Associates, who, in the 1940s, developed the psychometric system known as Activity Vector Analysis. AVA, still in use, is a tool for personnel managers to help determine what kind of work would best suit a prospective employee. The system measures five aspects of an individual's psychological tendencies, places the results on a linear scale, then correlates these points, connecting them with lines to form a final angular diagram. This is then compared with diagrams describing the ideal traits for the various kinds of work available at that company. Personnel managers wishing to use AVA had to be certified by attending seminars run by the Walter V. Clarke company. One of the leaves in this notebook lists the 14 members of this 1957 seminar, representing a variety of companies from the Northeast but including some from California and Canada, including The Campbell Soup Company, The New York Trust Company, The Hanover Bank, Paper Mate Manufacturing, National Fire Insurance Company, McCall Corporation, and The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company from Boston. The present notebook was kept by the personnel manager of this last-named company, Marchant W. Eldridge (father of this bookseller). Another typewritten leaf lists attendees of a 1965 workshop, also attended by Eldridge, whose company rubber stamp, dated 1959, appears on the first page of the notebook. The notebook leaves measure 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". The notes are in ball-point ink. The penmanship is a little difficult but not impossible. (My father was left-handed but was forced at school to write with his right hand -- in accordance with the received pedagogical wisdom of the 1910s.) 121 leaves are written on rectos only; 23 are written on rectos and versos; 4 ms. leaves are written on lined letter-size paper. Thus the total manuscript material here comes to about 170 pages. Also included are sample evaluation forms showing the final AVA diagrams, annotated by hand with the author's comments. The notebook is divided into four sections: Fundamentals, Vector Theory, Conference Notes, Patterns.
