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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... attention , transformed into dollars and cents , was a revelation to him and he found that turn - over played a very important part insofar as his payroll was concerned and he immediately took steps to remedy it . We all know that the ...
... attention , transformed into dollars and cents , was a revelation to him and he found that turn - over played a very important part insofar as his payroll was concerned and he immediately took steps to remedy it . We all know that the ...
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... attention of the Committee , such as the introduction of the blower system for purifying the air in the dusty rooms of a factory in which the turnover , on account of the workers breathing the dust , had been very large . Running water ...
... attention of the Committee , such as the introduction of the blower system for purifying the air in the dusty rooms of a factory in which the turnover , on account of the workers breathing the dust , had been very large . Running water ...
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... attention to the balance , but would instruct an office boy to tell the applicant that all jobs were filled . One day we received a letter from a workman who had noticed the advertisement , and wrote relating his experience in answer ...
... attention to the balance , but would instruct an office boy to tell the applicant that all jobs were filled . One day we received a letter from a workman who had noticed the advertisement , and wrote relating his experience in answer ...
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... attention to details has already proven it has paid , through the reduction in overhead per unit of production in this department . Fourth . - INTERVIEWS WITH MEN WHO QUIT . As all men are paid off through the Employment Depart- ment ...
... attention to details has already proven it has paid , through the reduction in overhead per unit of production in this department . Fourth . - INTERVIEWS WITH MEN WHO QUIT . As all men are paid off through the Employment Depart- ment ...
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... attention that they have to give themselves , -they seem in some way to be really more willing to stick by us during the hours of the day as well as during the months in the year in which they work for us . I would like to make a ...
... attention that they have to give themselves , -they seem in some way to be really more willing to stick by us during the hours of the day as well as during the months in the year in which they work for us . I would like to make a ...
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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.
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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.
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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.