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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Page 61
... managers and others had made exhaustive studies of labor turnover along the lines that your Committee intended to cover . Your Committee has , therefore , selected some of these documents and added them to its report , inasmuch as it ...
... managers and others had made exhaustive studies of labor turnover along the lines that your Committee intended to cover . Your Committee has , therefore , selected some of these documents and added them to its report , inasmuch as it ...
Page 63
... Managers ' Association of Boston has adopted this provisional form and method for computing turnover . The Association anticipates its later re- vision in the light of experience to be secured through its use . As a convenience and ...
... Managers ' Association of Boston has adopted this provisional form and method for computing turnover . The Association anticipates its later re- vision in the light of experience to be secured through its use . As a convenience and ...
Page 75
... seemed such a serious problem . We finally called a conference of our officers , the new em- ployment managers , whom we had selected , and our two super- intendents , to discuss fully all questions connected with the 75.
... seemed such a serious problem . We finally called a conference of our officers , the new em- ployment managers , whom we had selected , and our two super- intendents , to discuss fully all questions connected with the 75.
Page 76
... manager is to watch the men after they are employed , keeping records of the work , and to see that the employe is brought up to the standard of the department , one thought being that we should adopt an efficiency schedule , and if a ...
... manager is to watch the men after they are employed , keeping records of the work , and to see that the employe is brought up to the standard of the department , one thought being that we should adopt an efficiency schedule , and if a ...
Page 77
... manager to find out causes for men leaving , and while he might not be able to retain the men it would show him our weakness if any exists and enable him to eradicate it with future employes . The signature of the employment manager on ...
... manager to find out causes for men leaving , and while he might not be able to retain the men it would show him our weakness if any exists and enable him to eradicate it with future employes . The signature of the employment manager on ...
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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.
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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.