Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... are some who have made no attempt to handle or solve this problem. Some of these feel that they cannot stand the expense entailed, and it is to these that the system which follows may be of benefit. It is based on that fundamental found in every American, pride. With no one is this truer than the American workman, who responds more quickly to rivalry and enthusiasm than to any other incentive. Every working man, in fact most every man, likes to have his good deeds applauded and dislikes to have his shortcomings criticized. With this thought in mind and upon this foundation the method outlined below reduced the percentage of time lost from 5.90 to 3.82, in a concern employing an average of 1,700 men, in the six months it has been in operation. More than 70 per cent. of the employees, in the concern referred to, work in the open without protection from the weather. To gather this information required the services each day of a timekeeper for about one hour, and a clerk in the employment department for about four hours. In addition, the services of a stenographer are required at the end of the month for about a day and a half. The daily absence form is made out each day by the timekeeping department, and is made out for the production departments showing day and night shifts. It is then sent to the employment department and a clerk checks to the man's employment record card. At the end of the month a clerk makes out a list, containing the name and number of each employee by departments, showing the number of days lost during the month by each employee, copied from his record card. A careful notation is made of the men who have not missed a day during the month and a letter is sent to the foreman of the department, calling this fact to his attention. When the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... are some who have made no attempt to handle or solve this problem. Some of these feel that they cannot stand the expense entailed, and it is to these that the system which follows may be of benefit. It is based on that fundamental found in every American, pride. With no one is this truer than the American workman, who responds more quickly to rivalry and enthusiasm than to any other incentive. Every working man, in fact most every man, likes to have his good deeds applauded and dislikes to have his shortcomings criticized. With this thought in mind and upon this foundation the method outlined below reduced the percentage of time lost from 5.90 to 3.82, in a concern employing an average of 1,700 men, in the six months it has been in operation. More than 70 per cent. of the employees, in the concern referred to, work in the open without protection from the weather. To gather this information required the services each day of a timekeeper for about one hour, and a clerk in the employment department for about four hours. In addition, the services of a stenographer are required at the end of the month for about a day and a half. The daily absence form is made out each day by the timekeeping department, and is made out for the production departments showing day and night shifts. It is then sent to the employment department and a clerk checks to the man's employment record card. At the end of the month a clerk makes out a list, containing the name and number of each employee by departments, showing the number of days lost during the month by each employee, copied from his record card. A careful notation is made of the men who have not missed a day during the month and a letter is sent to the foreman of the department, calling this fact to his attention. When the ...
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