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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... turn - over as a subject was the fact that there were four opinions , all varying as to the method to be used , in figuring turn - over . So we immediately decided upon a standard form to be.
... turn - over as a subject was the fact that there were four opinions , all varying as to the method to be used , in figuring turn - over . So we immediately decided upon a standard form to be.
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... turn - over . Many officials , particularly of the old school , do not fully appreciate the part which turn - over plays in the conduct of the payroll . Recently a member of my committee met a man who was at the head of quite a large ...
... turn - over . Many officials , particularly of the old school , do not fully appreciate the part which turn - over plays in the conduct of the payroll . Recently a member of my committee met a man who was at the head of quite a large ...
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... turn - over and the best way to approach that subject is to talk about your own institution . In the Equitable we work along specific lines . In the first place we have a sort of semi - scientific test which an applicant must pass ...
... turn - over and the best way to approach that subject is to talk about your own institution . In the Equitable we work along specific lines . In the first place we have a sort of semi - scientific test which an applicant must pass ...
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... 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 the selection of salesmen will be ...
... 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 the selection of salesmen will be ...
Page 57
... on strictly business principles . I have mentioned the causes why agents leave to show the problems which confront an insurance company in correcting its turn - over . REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT PLANS The Committee on Employment 57.
... on strictly business principles . I have mentioned the causes why agents leave to show the problems which confront an insurance company in correcting its turn - over . REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT PLANS The Committee on Employment 57.
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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.