Organizing a Factory: An Analysis of the Elements in Factory Organization, a Presentation of the Fundamental Principles of Factory Management, and a Description of the Methods to Be Used in Every Department of Factory Operation
Organizing a Factory: An Analysis of the Elements in Factory Organization, a Presentation of the Fundamental Principles of Factory Management, and a Description of the Methods to Be Used in Every Department of Factory Operation
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and the employe on such basis as found deThe sirable, though usually it has been found Time most satisfactory to make the division an Limit even one; half the saving going to each, the employer getting the greater benefit of the two by the reduced equipment cost per piece. Comparatively speaking, wage by piece-work ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and the employe on such basis as found deThe sirable, though usually it has been found Time most satisfactory to make the division an Limit even one; half the saving going to each, the employer getting the greater benefit of the two by the reduced equipment cost per piece. Comparatively speaking, wage by piece-work exceeding a certain limit must be cut by the employer to preserve equilibrium, the moral effect of which is to kill any further alertness on the part of the employes to maintain or increase speed of production, and as before stated, carried with it two contrary acting penalties. While the Premium System may not be as direct in its intensification of production as the piecework system, it certainly seems more permanent in its effect; much more equitable in its distribution of cost saving as between employer and employe; and further it seems to be governed by true economical principles in manufacture, and is now employed in many of the factories of the largest industries of the country. Another system that has had considerable attention, is known as the "Differential Piece Rate System," in which the piece price starts off at a comparatively Differential low figure-Tnat is to say, for a 8iven Piece Sate amount of work per day the wage earned System on piece.worj WOuld be much less than would be paid if the laborer was working by the hour or day for the same amount of work--the purpose of which is two-fold. First, to stimulate activity toward increased effort on the part of the employe, and second, to attach a penalty for too great an effort on his part if the workmanship is inferior. The method is to set a price for the amount of work that is to be done in a specified time, exceeding which the price is raised per piece not only for the wor...
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Edition:
Presumed first edition/first printing thus
Publisher:
The System Company
Published:
1905
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469927227
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Good. No dust jacket. Cover has wear, soiling and some discoloration. 156 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. "In revising and rearranging the series of articles written for "System: so that they might be published in book form, the writer has endeavored to enlarge them sufficently to make the work complete, and to establish such a continuity and relation between them as to lead the reader on ins sequence, step by step, in such as way as not only to enable to but to cause him to gather a comprehensive understanding of the questions involved. This is an early work on modern industrial organization, which had an impact on the mobilization of war production during the First World War and subsequently. Woods' theory on factory organization, increased production and quality control. The author was trained at the Boston Institute of Technology and then worked with the Westinghouse Compnay, the Pope Manufacturing Company, the Pennsylvania Reaper Company, and--at time of publication, with INternational harvester Company.
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