(g) The Reward System.
The Reward System (this is the name given to the system for the purpose of this description) is different to all the foregoing methods.
The worker is paid the ordinary standard rate of wages for his attendance at the factory, and this attendance implies the production of a certain minimum quantity of work. If he produces more than that quantity, he is paid additional wages in proportion to the work done. If a certain standard quantity of work be produced, the standard being considerably in excess of the minimum, the proportionate additional wages, or reward, amounts to at least 25 per cent. of the day rate—that is, of the trade-union rate. Also, an equal opportunity of reaching the standard quantity is given to all workers, inasmuch as the work is carefully studied, standardised, and recorded, and instructions are given to the worker showing him just how to produce the standard quantity. The standard quantity is within the reach of all diligent workers.
This system is described in the following pages.
CHAPTER II
WAGES AND EFFICIENCY REWARD
(a) The Reward System.
The rational study of work and the worker shows the following principles to be essential when general and continuous efficiency is the end in view:
1. The greatest efficiency is obtained when the worker is most contented.