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. 1918 Excerpt: ... save four they account for over 60 per cent of it and twice for over 70 per cent of it. Professor Loveday is doubtful, moreover, ... whether even the careful records kept by the firm to whom these figures refer do complete justice to the facts. There remains the possibility that some part of what is reckoned as "bad ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ... save four they account for over 60 per cent of it and twice for over 70 per cent of it. Professor Loveday is doubtful, moreover, ... whether even the careful records kept by the firm to whom these figures refer do complete justice to the facts. There remains the possibility that some part of what is reckoned as "bad timekeeping " is due to fatigue and minor ailments which are genuine enough, though no one would ask for or give a medical certificate in respect of them. If that be so, the curves of " bad timekeeping " and of sickness will tend to move in the same direction. Examining the figures for each week Professor Loveday finds that "this tendency is apparent: the curve of 'bad time-keeping' does on the whole move in the same direction either as the curve of sickness or... as the curve of sickness and leave combined." He concludes "that the figures of ' bad time-keeping' include some absences which should be attributed to a sort of invalidity rather than to slackness." Professor Loveday describes a still more detailed test of the proportion of absence due to sickness or " some sort of invalidity," and since it is of great importance that this proportion be confirmed by further investigation, we give his method in full: In the attempt to ascertain by a comparison of curves whether the figures of "bad timekeeping" include absences due to physical disabilities of a minor kind, it is more important to notice whether the curves rise than whether they fall concomitantly, especially when hours are long, for the factors which first produce absences deemed avoidable may go on to produce definite sickness, and thus the curve of bad timekeeping may fall whilst that of sickness rises, simply because those a...
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