More Work Per Man: Tested and Selected Methods of Managing Men

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John Herbert Van Deventer
Engineering magazine Company, 1921 - 440 pages

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Page 338 - The term profit-sharing is applied to "those cases in which an employer agrees with his employees that they shall receive in partial remuneration of their labour, and in addition to their wages, a share, fixed beforehand, in the profits realized by the undertaking to which the profit-sharing relates.
Page 142 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are part of an institution, do not condemn it.
Page 142 - If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him — speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
Page 412 - Misguided efforts to stimulate workers to feverish activity in the supposed interests of the country are likely to be as damaging to the desired result as the cheers of partisans would be if they encouraged a long-distance runner to a futile sprint early in his race.
Page 276 - Representative shall be free to discharge his duties in an independent manner, without fear that his individual relations with the Company may be affected in the least degree by any action taken by him in good faith in his representative capacity. To insure to each Representative his right to such independent action, he shall have the right to take the question of an alleged personal discrimination against him, on account of his acts in his representative capacity, to any of the Superior Officers;...
Page 82 - The percentage of labor turnover for any period considered is the ratio of the total number of separations during the period to the average number of employees on the force report during that period.
Page 341 - The employee agreed to remain in the employ of the company for a period of five years, at the salary received at the time the contract was signed ; in return for which he was allowed to subscribe to stock whose par value amounted to three times his annual salary and agreed to pay for it according to a rather elaborate plan whose main features were as follows : Interest at the rate of four per cent was charged the employee on the par value of the stock.
Page 257 - Shop Committees shall be organized wherever possible for the purpose of Communist agitation in a particular shop or industry by the workers employed there. These committees shall be united with each other and with the Communist Party, so that the party shall have actual contact with the workers and mobilize them for action against capitalism.
Page 142 - ... stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Page 260 - ... with which these committees concern themselves are primarily safety and welfare work, with a small number trying to extend their activities to include grievances. Complete authority is centered in the management, the committees merely giving advice and suggestions which may or may not be accepted by the management. The powers, functions, and methods of operation of these committees identify them with the service work of the plants rather than with problems of bargaining, of wages, hours, and...

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