Annual Proceedings: Addresses, Reports, Bibliographies and Discussions, Volume 5order of the Convention, 1917 - Business education Vol. 1 includes proceedings of the organizing convention, New York, Jan. 24, 1913. |
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... apprentice instruction , welfare work and improved employment methods , and especially give us knowledge of an employe's in- creasing usefulness to a concern as a basis for making wage increases for long services . It should be noted ...
... apprentice instruction , welfare work and improved employment methods , and especially give us knowledge of an employe's in- creasing usefulness to a concern as a basis for making wage increases for long services . It should be noted ...
Page 130
... apprentice , the problem of the develop- ment of all of the industries in the organization , and there are many companies that are coming to believe that the use of the committee system is a very effective way for developing the members ...
... apprentice , the problem of the develop- ment of all of the industries in the organization , and there are many companies that are coming to believe that the use of the committee system is a very effective way for developing the members ...
Page 142
... apprentice instructions for college grad- uates . I desire to impress one or two phases of the problem before us upon you as they affect the college man . We have two classes - you have the man who comes from the grammar school and whom ...
... apprentice instructions for college grad- uates . I desire to impress one or two phases of the problem before us upon you as they affect the college man . We have two classes - you have the man who comes from the grammar school and whom ...
Page 143
... apprentice work you are formulating , you are determining the needs of your corporations , and that is a help , but the instructor by contact with the corpora- tion may also become a factor in the guidance of the student . We have what ...
... apprentice work you are formulating , you are determining the needs of your corporations , and that is a help , but the instructor by contact with the corpora- tion may also become a factor in the guidance of the student . We have what ...
Page 154
... apprentices coming into our apprenticeship system . It is purely in the experimental stage . The method of checking your test is this - of all those who were checked on the first trial , we check them with the same test four months ...
... apprentices coming into our apprenticeship system . It is purely in the experimental stage . The method of checking your test is this - of all those who were checked on the first trial , we check them with the same test four months ...
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Page 40 - OFFICERS 1. The President of the Association shall preside at all meetings of the Association and of the Executive Committee, and in consultation with the Program Committee, shall prepare the programs for the annual meetings.
Page 86 - During the period when men were so hard to get we tried to analyze the cause for men either not hiring with us or not staying with us and the employment department made the following report as to one of the contributing causes, viz: "Our work from its very nature is hard and laborious, tiring men out, compared with work in the average factory. "We figure that in order to hold our men, and make our plant attractive to new men it is necessary to reduce our week from 57J hours to 52J hours, with no...
Page 87 - ... raise before we are compelled to." This is the department that increased production 18.4 per cent. with five hours per week less running time, and last month had the largest production in the last three years. . . . Transfers in the factory had never been attempted. If a man did not suit his foreman, he was fired and no questions asked. Now we look into unsatisfactory cases, try to find the cause, remedy it if we can, and if we can't, try to locate the unsatisfactory man in another department.
Page 40 - Executive Committee and shall perform such other duties as may be provided for in this Constitution or by vote of the Association.
Page 89 - If a man did not suit his foreman, he was fired and no questions asked. "Now we look into unsatisfactory cases, try to find the causes, remedy them if we can, and if we can't, try to locate the unsatisfactory man in another department. "Just a few cases of what we have done: We have one young man of undoubted ability, good personality, pleasant, and obliging. He became a regular Monday absentee, took all that was said to him as a reprimand with a lackadaisical air, and had evidently lost his 'pep.
Page 313 - If it occurs suddenly, the sufferer believes his hernia was caused then and there, but, as a matter of fact, the extrusion of bowel or omentum and its entrance into the sac, are but the last of a long series of antecedent and preparatory changes.
Page 95 - ... Hiring does not vary in this way. B. Instruction usually is limited to an arbitrary time — two or three days. C. The new worker probably requires around three months to get familiar with machine in all respects, although this estimate remains to be proved. D. Up to probably four weeks the new employee improves rapidly. It takes him probably six months to "hit his best stride.