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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... kind words , for your very hearty greeting and for the stirring way in which you have welcomed us , with the help of your able assistants here . You have set our hearts beating more rapidly , because of the patriotic significance of our ...
... kind words , for your very hearty greeting and for the stirring way in which you have welcomed us , with the help of your able assistants here . You have set our hearts beating more rapidly , because of the patriotic significance of our ...
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... kind . There were many conditions to meet which would not arise in normal times . We were in competition with munition factories and higher wages continually , and in order to keep the turn - over figure as low as possible it was ...
... kind . There were many conditions to meet which would not arise in normal times . We were in competition with munition factories and higher wages continually , and in order to keep the turn - over figure as low as possible it was ...
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... kind contribute towards reducing your turn - over . I want to say that the insurance companies are looking into the matter of hiring and firing of agents with more concern than ever . They are attempting to formulate some test by which ...
... kind contribute towards reducing your turn - over . I want to say that the insurance companies are looking into the matter of hiring and firing of agents with more concern than ever . They are attempting to formulate some test by which ...
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... kind during the past year . They were clerks " in bad " as it were , but not bad fellows ; however , through sickness , etc. , they had fallen into debt . We all know how easily those things happen . We took hold of them , set them ...
... kind during the past year . They were clerks " in bad " as it were , but not bad fellows ; however , through sickness , etc. , they had fallen into debt . We all know how easily those things happen . We took hold of them , set them ...
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... kind of work . This was answered in a monosyllable , and then the applicant asked what the job paid . With no attempt to explain the method of remuneration the applicant was informed that we started men in and they could make 15 cents ...
... kind of work . This was answered in a monosyllable , and then the applicant asked what the job paid . With no attempt to explain the method of remuneration the applicant was informed that we started men in and they could make 15 cents ...
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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.