Industrial Loyalty, Its Value, Its Creation, Its Preservation: A Discussion of an Important and Hitherto Neglected Problem, Showing the Costlines of the Present Method and the Remedies for it |
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Page 75 - ... orders from persons outside of your plant and contrary to its interests e — Make work in your plant a sufficient career (1) Establish system for granting unasked-for pay increases as deserved (2) Discover ambitions of men for future transfers and promotions (3) Help train men to new tasks (4) Transfer with some liberality (5) Encourage men to improve general education by reimbursing for outlay on courses of study as completed...
Page 31 - ... referred to, our employers are striving to reduce the 80 per cent item of cost of inefficient labor where the expense is incurred; that is, outside of their own plants. They recognize that turnover of labor is a special phase of the problem of inefficient labor, and that the reduction of turnover is only the first step in a process of education and of ' economic pressure to elevate the standards of workmen. They aim not only to keep workmen, but to develop them. And they are prepared to go as...
Page 21 - ... reduced to zero, this huge investment could, in Mr. Rheinfeldt's opinion, be reduced by $1,800,000. The interest at 6 per cent on this amount of money is $108,000 per annum. Nor is this all. Is it not fair to assume that labor cost would also be reduced 25 per cent if there were no turnover? If so, out of 12,000 employees, the wages of 2,400 men and supervisors, anything from a million and a half to two and a half million dollars a year, could be wiped out. Now a word about the reliability of...
Page 60 - ... people desire not so much to be cured of ailments as to have ailments to describe. It is better, however, to pick up complaints before they become grievances— while they may be still an expression of some form of idealism — and to deal with disquieting aspirations before they become programs. For this purpose shop meetings called by managers, and scheduled to discuss pleasant and hopeful enterprises as well as difficulties, preserve good feeling.
Page 72 - Introduce new men to bosses, to fellow workers, and to physical surroundings, and acquaint with rules and facilities of plant. (3) Instruct men thoroughly in new task. (4) Advance money or meal tickets to beginners short of funds. (5) Help beginners speedily to get on piece or bonus rates. (b) Promote physical efficiency — • (1) Establish physical department. (2) Examine all workmen periodically and provide machinery for following up those found to be defective. (3) Provide adequate light, heat,...
Page 58 - And too, I should consider it advisable to make rest periods either longer or more frequent toward the close of the day. A vacation is one kind of rest period in the above sense. Shop men need it perhaps more than office workers, and should secure it on the same terms. It is advisable to tie the vacation plan up with the measures to reduce absenteeism by making the length of the vacation with pay vary with the number of weeks of satisfactory attendance. Strike fever is often vacation fever. Shrewd...
Page 43 - ... system of careful selection whatever. The growing demands of industry far outrun the supply of skilled workers, and not only to contribute its share of trained people but even to obtain its share, a plant must cooperate in the general educational program. Now one of the most basic remedies for turnover is the payment of an adequate wage, and this can be urged only upon plants that have taken pains before hiring to ascertain whether the applicant's home life and standards of living, as well as...
Page 61 - You cannot bring five hundred people together in a factory or anywhere else habitually without providing a field for social striving. They crave organization, fun, activity and influence upon one another. You, as managers, can capitalize this tendency to the advantage of your enterprise. You can make your organization a real family, your plant a communal home. Self-expression is self-rewarding. No life is complete without it and the factory which does not promote it is repressing a vital part of...
Page 48 - You cannot be sure of a man's doing anything but spoiling work for a day and wasting your time if you take him on first and then let the foreman settle his rate of pay afterward. Give your man a definite starting wage, and, so far as possible, a reasonable assurance of the rates to which he will be advanced at stated times if he makes certain standards of efficiency. Then, if he accepts your job, you can be more sure of him. But it is just as important to help a man get over his stage fright in tackling...
Page 27 - Co. also, the turnover of the two plants dropped to 8.3 per cent. In July, it was 8 per cent; in August, 4.1 per cent; in September, 3.3 per cent; in October, 3 per cent; in November, 2.6 per cent; in December, 2.4 per cent This is the most remarkable record of employment department efficiency that I know of anywhere, and when you take into consideration the fact that the average turnover of labor in Detroit was jumping up by leaps and bounds at the same time that the Solvay companies were greatly...