CONTENTS
| Preface | [v] | |
| Introductory | [vii] | |
| PART I | ||
| GENERAL PRINCIPLES | ||
| chapter | page | |
| I. | Different Methods of Payment of Wages | [1] |
| (a) Day Work | [2] | |
| (b) Piece Work | [6] | |
| (c) Profit Sharing | [8] | |
| (d) Co-partnership | [11] | |
| (e) Co-operation | [13] | |
| (f) Bonus Systems | [15] | |
| (g) The Reward System | [16] | |
| II. | Wages and Efficiency Reward | [18] |
| (a) The Reward System | [18] | |
| (b) The Basis of Reward Payment | [24] | |
| (c) Special Reward for High Efficiency | [30] | |
| (d) The Classification of Work | [31] | |
| (e) Reward derived from Increased Production | [32] | |
| (f) Safeguards | [33] | |
| (g) Attention to Service Details | [35] | |
| (h) Loss of Skill due to the Reward System | [40] | |
| III. | Wages and Progress | [43] |
| (a) Antagonism between Employer and Worker | [43] | |
| (b) Trade-Unions and the Reward System | [45] | |
| (c) Scientific Management and the Reward System | [47] | |
| (d) The Future of Labour | [50] | |
| (e) The Actual and the Ideal | [56] | |
| PART II | ||
| AN APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES TO A PARTICULAR CASE | ||
| IV. | Work and Reward | [67] |
| (a) Routing the Work | [68] | |
| (b) The Time Study | [70] | |
| (c) Fixing Standard Time | [73] | |
| (d) The Instruction Card | [79] | |
| (e) Spoiled Work | [79] | |
| (f) Allowances | [81] | |
| (g) Efficiency Calculation | [83] | |
| PART III | ||
| EXPLANATION OF DIAGRAMS SHOWING DIFFERENT METHODS OF REWARD PAYMENT | ||
| V. | Reward and Efficiency | [86] |
| (a) Reward System No. 1 | [90] | |
| (b) Reward System No. 2 | [92] | |
| (c) Reward System No. 3 | [94] | |
| (d) Reward System No. 4 | [96] | |
| (e) The Taylor System | [98] | |
| (f) The Gantt System | [100] | |
| (g) The Emerson System | [102] | |
| (h) The Rowan System | [104] | |
| (i) Day Rate | [107] | |
| (j) Piece Work | [107] | |
| (k) The Ford System | [109] | |
| Appendix: A Floating Wage Rate | [111] | |
PART I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER I
DIFFERENT METHODS OF PAYMENT
OF WAGES
The war has brought the question of efficiency and efficiency methods to the front very prominently, and there is a consensus of opinion that it will be necessary to adopt them very widely if we are to retain our present commercial and national position in the world.
The object of such methods is to obtain increased production. It is well known that the worker can produce far more than he does, but from his point of view there is no particular reason why he should attempt to do so under ordinary working conditions.
The circumstances are altered entirely if increased production results in higher wages with better conditions of work, and if the worker does not get too tired or suffer any injury to his health in the process.