(3) Do you encourage competition between men in the same department?
(4) Do you encourage competition between your own departments?
(5) Do you encourage competition with departments of competing establishments?
(6) In competition do you make it fair by ``handicapping'' your men?
What reward does the winner receive, e.g.:—
(1) Monetary reward?
(2) Promotion?
(3) Public commendation?
In answers by equally successful managers great diversity of opinion prevailed. Some men were afraid of all forms of competition.
They believed that co<o:>peration was essential to success and that any form of competition among the men tended to lessen such co<o:>peration. Most of the men interviewed believed that competition when wisely handled is very effective in stimulating the men.