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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... week , and let us register anew our devotion to the ideals , to the ambitions , of American industry , which brings us together . I will now ask Dr. Rowe to act as chairman of the meeting . COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT PLANS MR . F. P. ...
... week , and let us register anew our devotion to the ideals , to the ambitions , of American industry , which brings us together . I will now ask Dr. Rowe to act as chairman of the meeting . COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT PLANS MR . F. P. ...
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... week's salary , which in this department is about six weeks , although to reach the full pay of an expert worker takes 12 weeks . Our basis is as follows : First week we pay 30 cents per hour flat . Second week we pay 20 cents per hour ...
... week's salary , which in this department is about six weeks , although to reach the full pay of an expert worker takes 12 weeks . Our basis is as follows : First week we pay 30 cents per hour flat . Second week we pay 20 cents per hour ...
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... week we pay 12 cents per hour on the same basis . Fifth week we pay 8 cents per hour on the same basis . Sixth week we pay 5 cents per hour on the same basis . At the end of that time the man should be self - supporting . We credit this ...
... week we pay 12 cents per hour on the same basis . Fifth week we pay 8 cents per hour on the same basis . Sixth week we pay 5 cents per hour on the same basis . At the end of that time the man should be self - supporting . We credit this ...
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... week , or for 6 weeks an excess of $ 15.60 . During the following six weeks , which complete the 12 weeks we figure are necessary to produce an experienced man , this excess cost becomes less due to increased production , but if we cut ...
... week , or for 6 weeks an excess of $ 15.60 . During the following six weeks , which complete the 12 weeks we figure are necessary to produce an experienced man , this excess cost becomes less due to increased production , but if we cut ...
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... week ahead . 2.16 . 1917 Employment Dept .: Please employ for Dept. 18. one man 21 age 40 or ..... with the following qualities Some experience of possible . strong sober man . Kind of work wanted for Wages to start Polishing New rates ...
... week ahead . 2.16 . 1917 Employment Dept .: Please employ for Dept. 18. one man 21 age 40 or ..... with the following qualities Some experience of possible . strong sober man . Kind of work wanted for Wages to start Polishing New rates ...
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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.